It is doubtful whether the Prayer Book will satisfy the Church during the second half of the century." So spoke the Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer, at San Francisco last week, where the Protestant Episcopal Church was beginning its 56th two-week General Convention. Before a mass meeting, the Very Rev John W. Suter, Dean of Washington Cathedral, urgently recommended revision of the American Prayer Book (an adaptation of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer), which has stood in its present form since 1928.
Dean Suter knew exactly what he wanted:...
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