Excerpt from The People's Book of Worship: A Study of the Book of Common Prayer This is all true. But in studying the Prayer Book, we are justified in confining ourselves to this particular aspect Of the religious life, which has come to be commonly known as Worship - what we do when we are definitely conscious of God's presence and worth and have, or ought to have, nothing else to do. We are also justified in still further narrowing the scope of our study by eliminating the worship of the individual. It is possible and very general and very valuable to worship God, in private. But the Prayer Book we are to study is the Book of Common Prayer, and implies the corporate char acter Of its worship. Religion not only takes in the whole Of each man's life, but is distinctly social and is only true religion when it feels its brother hood as one family of God. Because God is the Father of a family, he is never truly known except as a Father. SO Christ taught. And no father can be known except in relation to his family, in his home and around his family board. We may use no selfish, personal pronouns in addressing him. We must say Our Father, remembering his other children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.