"Edited by Dr. Percy Dearmer, Canon of Westminster".
"The issue, indeed, is simple. The motives and methods of human life are not sufficiently moralised: it was to moralise the machinery of production, to limit the power of selfishness, that Wilberforce and Shaftesbury were working a century ago; and the whole world now enjoys what Christians then won: but in many ways industry and business, and family life, and civic and political activity, need further moralisation. Money -- the necessary use of tokens of exchange -- has been overlooked in its moral aspect (in spite of what Christ said about it) .... And, alas, there was one aspect of human life which was not understood a hundred years ago; and to this our present miseries are mainly due. The very word 'international' had then only just been coined by Jeremy Bentham. The whole conception of moralising international relations was in its infancy. So the world went on to its doom. So, because the nations and their representatives have not yet learnt the elements of international behaviour, we stand at this moment of writing on the brink of irretrievable disaster. It is in a very real sense true that only Christ can save the world from ruin to-day. Are we prepared to let his spirit save the nations from themselves ?" -- Preface, p. 10-11.
Contents: Preface By the Editor / Percy Dearmer -- Introductory: "Christ or Chaos ?" -- 1. Vindication / E.A. Burroughs -- 2. The Demands of the Ordinary Man / Albert Mansbridge -- Part I: The Present Chaos -- 1. The Intellectual and Moral Confusion / W.R. Matthews -- 2. The Confusion in Literature / Richard Ellis Roberts -- 3. The Social and Economic Confusion / P.T.R. Kirk -- 4. The Confusion in International Relations / J. Howard B. Masterman -- Part II: What Christianity Is -- 1. The Secret of Christ / Charles E. Raven -- 2. Christ's Conception of the Kingdom of God / Arthur Herbert Gray -- 3. The Original Fellowship Idea of the Christian Church / Joseph Wellington Hunkin -- 4. The Christian View of Man as Social / S.J. Bezzant -- 5. Christianity and History: -- a) General Development / Malcolm Spencer -- b) Social Progress and the Continental Churches / A.E. Garvie -- c) The Stockholm Conference / G.K.A. Bell -- 6. Uniting the Christian Forces / Edward S. Woods -- 7. What the Church is Doing: Social Activities / S.E. Keeble -- Part III: The Christian Solution -- 1. Personal and Family Life / A.A. David -- 2. Education / Charles Grant Robertson -- 3. The Social and Economic Order -- a) The Basis of Exchange / Hewlett Johnson -- b) Civic and Industrial Reform / J. Morgan Rees -- c) Individual Function and the Community / E. C. Urwin -- d) Labour and Leisure / A. Maude Royden -- e) The Rebirth of the Village / W. Beach Thomas -- 4. The State and Constructive Citizenship / W.G.S. Adams -- 5. The World of International Affairs -- a) Christianity and the League of Nations / Lord Dickinson -- b) The Crisis and the East / J.B. Raju -- c) Disarmament / Cosmo Gordon Lang -- d) A Christian Peace Policy / E.N. Porter Goff -- 6. Is There an Alternative ? -- a) Scientific Humanism and Religions of Life / H.G. Wood -- b) Industrial Secularism / Maurice B. Reckitt -- c) Communist Secularism / Nicolai A. Berdiaeff -- 7. The Church in the World: Failures and Opportunities / F.R. Barry -- 8. The Conclusion of the Matter / William Temple -- Index.
Colophon: Printed in Great Britain by The Camelot Press Ltd., London and Southampton". -- verso of t.-p.
Contents: The Bible in the Prayer Book -- The Question of Set Forms of Prayer -- The Contents of the Prayer Book -- The Development of Service Books -- The First Stages of Liturgical Change -- The First English Prayer Book -- The Reign of Anarchy and the Second Prayer Book -- The Elizabethan Prayer Book -- The Fourth Prayer Book and the Authorized Version of the Bible -- The Savoy Conference -- The Fifth English Prayer Book -- Morning and Evening Prayer -- The Litany -- The Holy Communion -- Baptism, Catechizing and Confirmation -- The Occasional Services and the Ordinal.
OTCH copy has very fresh cloth cover with bright colour intact.
OTCH copy a gift from the Library of the Community of the Sisters of the Church.
The parson's handbook : containing practical directions both for parsons and others as to the management of the parish church and its services according to the Anglican use, as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer
"Twelfth Edition 1932. Second Impression 1940. Third Impression 1943. Fourth Impression 1948. Fifth Impression 1949". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-486) and index.
Contents: Preface to the Twelfth Edition -- Contents -- Descriptive List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Note on the Churchyard Garden -- The Chancel and Nave, and their Furniture -- The Holy Table and its Furniture -- Colours, Vestments, and Ornaments -- Vestries -- General Principles or Ritual and Ceremonial -- Mattins and Evensong -- The Litany -- Processions -- The Holy Communion: Introduction -- The Holy Communion: Priest and Clerk, Simple Form -- The Holy Communion: The Service in Detail, with full Complement of Ministers, and the Same in the Absence of Deacon and Subdeacon -- The Holy Communion: Analysis of the Ceremonial -- Holy Baptism -- Catechism and Confirmation -- The Solemnization of Matrimony -- The Visitation and Communion of the Sick, and the Churching of Women -- The Burial of the Dead -- Notes on the Seasons -- Appendix: The Ornaments of a London Church in the Sixth Year of King Edward VI -- List of Books Quoted -- Index.
Colophon: Set in Great Britain at the University Press, Oxford and printed by Jarrold and Sons Ltd, Norwich.