Excerpt from A Discourse, Delivered Before the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States: In St. James's Church, Philadelphia, on the 21st of May, 1814 But that which renders this property of our liturgy very admirable, is the skill with which it is so fiamed, as to be adapted to the use of all classes and orders of men. The high and the low, the rich and the poor, the old and the young, the ruler and the subject, the master and the slave, the saint and the sinner, may each find in it an oblation, meet for him to offer, and a blessing worthy to be thankfully received. It may be used without per plexity by the mean and the ignorant, and by the wise and the mighty without disgust. The plainest may un derstand it; and it may entertain all the faculties of the most refined. With a felicity, rarely to be found in any human production, its fulness is such, and so continued, that the prince and the beggar may use it together, and both find in it, becoming devotion, instruction, and delight. It has been objected to it, that it is too long. But when with serious deliberation we have considered the matter, we shall discover unexpected difficulty in selecting the parts with which we would most willingly dispense and shall perceive that no part can be removed from it, without impairing its strength, disturbing its pro portions, and diminishing its fulness. From the fulness of the liturgy, we pass to the arrange ment of its parts. A mass of materials, however great and valuable, can excite but little admiration, and be of but little utility, till it is reduced to some form and order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.