THE PRAYER BOOK, A COMPANION IN SORROW AND SICKNESS: BEING SELECTIONS OF Psalms, Lessons, and prayers FROM “THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, FOR VARIOUS VICISSITUDES OF LIFE, EDITED BY REV. WILLIAM HOLESGROVE, M.A., Chaplain of the Seckford Hospital, Woodbridge. THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. The following selections of Prayers, Psalms, and Lessons, drawn mainly from the Book of Common Prayer, have been placed in my hands to revise and edit. I have carefully gone through the work; the selections seem to have been made with much good judgment, and I think, when used in a prayerful and devout spirit, cannot but prove highly useful to those for whom they are intended. Even those who are accustomed to the daily use of their Prayer Book, and to whom its |