1785] REV. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. 145 



during the Night, let there be a reference to the Morning Prayer for 

 the residue. 



There is wanting a rubric at the head of the Collects, Epistles and 

 Gospels, enjoining the use of the proper Collect in the Morning Prayer 

 when used separate from the Communion Service, and always in the 

 Evening Prayer. 



Qucere. Will not the two Exhortations in the Communion Service 

 stand better either in the beginning or the end ? At present they make 

 an awkward break. 



Quaere, the propriety of introducing a rubric before the Prayer for 

 our Rulers, in the Communion Service, specifying that the same is to 

 be said, when that service is not used with the Morning Prayer. The 

 clergy here wish for it ; and many of our hearers wish that we had been 

 as tender of repetition here, as in the case of the Lord's Prayer. 



I hope to hear from you by return of the post, and am 



Yours, etc., 



Wm. White. 



P. S. — I observe that the second proof-sheet has a rubric, expressing 

 that the Prayer for Congress, etc., shall be said in the evening and at 

 other times when the Litany is not said ; this removes my objection in 

 part, but the two rubrics are contradictory. I think you will prefer the 

 arrangement I have proposed. 



1 hope you have attended to the Psalms and Lessons. I recollect in 

 the case of the Venite, we agreed to strike out the Latin ; accordingly 

 I have done it in the proof-sheet to the other Latin introductions. 

 For the same reason (/. e., its being agreed on in the case of the Venite) 

 I have erased the unnecessary provisions against repetition. 



Mr. Hall keeps the second proof-sheet so long on its second coming 

 from the press, that I have no time to review it ; and indeed I have 

 reviewed the other but imperfectly. I hope your accuracy will render 

 another reading unnecessary. 



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



Philadelphia, October 23, 1785. 

 Dear Sir: Similar proof-sheets to the enclosed were to have been 

 sent by Saturday's post ; but owing to the press, they were a few min- 

 utes too late, and are now in the office with my letter. I determined 

 to take the chance of the stage, but knowing the uncertainty as to the 

 delivery of letters, shall let mine remain with the sheets in the post- 

 office. 



Yours, etc., 



Wm. White. 



P- S. — I have altered the arrangement in this proof-sheet according ta.' 

 the plan proposed in my letter — merely for your inspection. 

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