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1. That such shortened service be formed by omit- 

 ting (except on Christmas-Day, Ash-Wednesday, 

 Good-Friday, and Ascension-Day) the Exhortation, 

 one Lesson (not being a proper Lesson), one Canti- 

 cle, and the prayers following the Third Collect ; the 

 service to conclude with the Prayer of St. Chrysos- 

 tom and " The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ," etc. 



2. That, under the discretion reserved by tbis 

 Convocation, so to modify its final decision of Feb- 

 ruary 13th, as to secure, if possible, unanimity with 

 the Northern Province, the Venite and one or more 

 of the Psalms (one Psalm at least, or one portion of 

 the 119th Psalm being always retained) be added to 

 the number of allowable omissions agreed to by thi3 

 Convocation. 



3. That thus the order for the shortened services 

 for use on ordinary week-days, agreed to by this 

 Convocation, defines the maximum amount of omis- 

 sion in the Order for Morning and Evening Prayer, 

 which may be made at the discretion of the Minister, 

 viz. : The Exhortation, the Venite, one or more 

 Psalms (one, at least, being always retained, or one 

 portion of the 119th Psalm), one Lesson (not being a 

 Proper Lesson), one Canticle, and all or any of the 

 prayers following the Third Collect ; the service to 

 conclude with the Prayer of St. Chrysostom and 

 " The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ," etc. 



4. That in all churches and chapels, whether ca- 

 thedral, collegiate, or parochial, the priest in charge 

 may, on special occasions, employ such prayers 

 taken from the Prayer-Bookj and such lections from 

 the Holy Scriptures, as to him may seem best, pro- 

 vided always that such service shall be allowed by 

 the Ordinary. 



5. That it is desirable that all doubts should^ be 

 removed as to whether sermons must, of necessity, 

 be preceded by the Divine Service appointed for the 

 day. But that no prayer be used with such sermon, 

 except the Bidding Prayer, or such prayer as shall 

 be taken from the Book of Common Prayer. 



B. On Sundays and holy days, where the Order 

 of Morning and Evening Prayer is duly said at some 

 other hours, it shall be lawful for the minister of any 

 cathedral, collegiate or parochial church, or of any 

 chapel, to use, as an additional service, any form of 

 prayer which is taken from the Book of Common 

 Prayer, except from the Office for the Celebration of 

 the Holy Communion, with Psalms and Hymns, if 

 such service shall be allowed by the Ordinary. 



C. That it is desirable that all doubts should be 

 removed which have arisen as to the lawfulness of 

 using in any church the Morning Prayer, Litany, and 

 Communion Office, each as a separate service. 

 1. That it be lawful to use the Morning Prayer, the 

 Litany, and the Order for the Administration of the 

 Lord's Supper or Holy Communion, together, or as 

 separate services in varying order, at the discretion 

 of the minister, under the direction of the Ordi- 

 nary. 



D. That it is desirable that the forms of prayer 

 referred to in the foregoing resolutions should be 

 allowed to be used in school-chapels and such-like 

 buildings, in lieu of the ordinary service. 



The Atlianasian Creed was brought to the 

 consideration of the Convocation of York at 

 its meeting in February by the Dean of Ches- 

 ter, who made a motion recommending that its 

 use be discontinued in the public worship of 

 the Church of England. The motion was dis- 

 cussed for two days, and then withdrawn. 



The Archbishop of Canterbury introduced 

 the Athanasian Creed before the tipper House 

 of the Convocation of Canterbury, at the 

 meeting in February, as one of the subjects 

 considered in the report of the Commis- 

 sioners of Ritual, to which the Queen had 

 invited the attention of the Convocation, A 



committee of the Lower House, to whom the 

 report of the Committee on Ritual had been 

 referred, made a report recommending the in- 

 sertion of a rubrical note explanatory of the 

 sense in which the Creed should be under- 

 stood. The Upper House decided to suspend 

 action pending the consideration of the sub- 

 ject by the Lower House. At its meeting in 

 May, the Lower House expressed itself in 

 favor of the unaltered maintenance of the 

 Athanasian Creed in public worship, and de- 

 clared that there was " no room for an explan- 

 atory note." It then requested the Archbishop 

 to appoint a committee to consider whether it 

 was desirable that a synodal declaration be 

 made with respect to the sense of any clauses 

 in the Athanasian Creed " that have been mis- 

 understood and misrepresented." The Upper 

 House refused to make any declaration against 

 the alteration of the creed. At the meeting of 

 the Convocaton in July, on motion of the Bish- 

 op of "Winchester in the Upper House, a joint 

 committee of the two Houses was appointed, 

 " to consider the whole aspect of the use of the 

 Athanasian Creed in the Church of England." 



This committee met at the palace of the 

 Archbishop, at Lambeth, on the 3d of De- 

 cember, and resolved to recommend the pub- 

 lication of an explanatory statement of the 

 sense in which the warnings of the Athanasian 

 Creed are accepted by the Church of England. 

 The declaration is to be framed hereafter. The 

 resolution was passed by a vote of 27 in its 

 favor, and 18 against it. Various amendments 

 were offered to this resolution, and rejected, 

 as follows : cne for delay, by a vote of 28 to 

 19; one for the omission of the damnatory 

 clauses, by a vote of 32 to 8 ; one to allow the 

 alternative use of the Apostles' Creed, by a 

 vote of 34 to 6 ; one for the omission of the 

 rubric before the creed, by a vote of 36 to 8 ; 

 one for the substitution in the rubric of "may" 

 for " shall," by a vote of 32 to 7 ; and one pro- 

 posing that a short act of Parliament be passed 

 on the subject. The last, it is stated, was not 

 even seconded. 



The members of this committee are: 



On the part of the Upper House the 

 Bishops of London, Winchester, Norwich, St. 

 David's, Bath and Wells, Peterborough, Llan- 

 daff, Chichester, Oxford, Exeter, Bangor, Ely, 

 St. Asaph's, Lincoln, Gloucester and Bristol, 

 Rochester, Hereford, Salisbury, Lichfield. 



On the part of the Lower House the Pro- 

 locutor, the Deans of Canterbury, Westmin- 

 ster, St. Paul's, Norwich, Wells, Rochester, 

 and Lincoln-elect, Archdeacons of Canterbury, 

 London, Nottingham, Huntington, Maidstone, 

 Stafford, Taunton, Gloucester, Exeter, Roch- 

 ester and St. Albans, Leicester, Surrey, Col- 

 chester, Coventry, Archdeacon Randall, Chan- 

 cellor Massinberg, Canons Swainson, Harvey, 

 Selwvn, Gregory, Seymour, Mosley; Dr .Kay, 

 Dr. Jebb, Lord A. Compton, Messrs. Gibbs, 

 Kemp, Perry, Hopkins, Sumner, Buckle, Horn, 

 Fagan, and Bathurst. 



