Introductory Notes. MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER. LL priests and deacons are to say daily the morning and evening prayer, either privately or openly, not being let by fickness or some other urgent cause." So fays our prefent rubric "Concerning the Service of the Church." The Second Prayer-Book of King Edward VI. had allowed" preaching" and "studying of divinity" as excuses for not reciting the Daily Office; but the revisers in 1662 restricted the permiffion as above: in other words "the rubric of 1552 made the suspension of the duty to depend on the will of man; that of 1662 referred it to the will of God." Every clergyman "being at home and not otherwife hindered" is bound to fay morning and evening prayer in his parish church or chapel. Liddon, "The Prieft 'n His Inner Life," p. 12. B |