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prayers "for the Congress," "for other civil rulers," and "for all 

 conditions;" then let there follow the General Thanksgiving, St. Chry- 

 sostom's Prayer and the Benediction. To prevent repetition in the 

 Evening Service, insert after the prayer against the dangers of the 

 night, the following rubric : 



Then shall be said the prayer for the Congress and the other prayers which follow 

 it in the Morning Service to the end thereof. 



There will be occasion for a rubric at the head of the Collects, Gos- 

 pels and Epistles, directing the use of the Collects for each Sunday and 

 holiday until the next Sunday or holiday; after the suffrages, at morning 

 prayer when the communion service is not said ; and always at evening 

 prayer. 



Quaere. — Will it not be best to place the two invitations to the com- 

 munion at the end of that service? At present they make an awkward 

 break. 



Please to mention these matters to Dr. Wharton, to whom I desire 

 my affectionate remembrances. 



I am, your affectionate humble servant, 



W.M. White. 



Rev. Dr. Smith to Rev. Dr. White. 



October, 17S5. 



Dear Sir: I am favored with yours of the 19th, enclosing the first 

 sheet of the Prayer Book, and shall expect a second sheet at Baltimore 

 on Tuesday 



On Wednesday last Dr. Wharton came to my house in Chester. 

 Thursday being a storm, we sat down in the morning, and devoted the 

 whole day to those parts of the Prayer Book, yet left to be prepared 

 for the press. 



ist. As to the office of Thanksgiving for the Fruits of the Earth, we 

 Avish to change one of the lessons, and also to make some additions to 

 the Thanksgiving prayer, which will give it a little more animation ; by 

 taking something from prayers on the same subject, which Dr. Wharton 

 thinks are to be found as well in the Roman Missal, as in the works of 

 Bishop Wilson, of Sodor and Man — both which he will consult on his 

 return to New Castle, in sufficient time for the press. 



But our great business on Thursday was to read over the Psalms, tak- 

 ing, as we went along, your very judicious selection or rather rejection 

 of particular Psalms and parts of Psalms. We propose rejecting some 

 parts more, which may have escaped your notice, and retaining some 

 few passages which you have proposed to reject ; for by taking the Bible 

 translation some of these passages are truly beautiful ; and therefore in 

 going over the work, we constantly compared the Bible translation with 

 that of the Prayer Book, and find that out of both, sometimes using 



