Excerpt from The Duke Divinity School Review, Vol. 38: Winter 1973 What I did not know was that something like a candid camera experience was about to happen to me. It was the day for celebrating holy communion. I was not in the mood for it. I wanted to nurse my private thoughts. I did not want to consider the implications of being in community. I think I rather enjoyed the pangs of feeling lonely. We were using the Alternate Text, 1972. At the section for the Affirmation of Faith I began to read, along with others, and, while reading, to compare the phrases of the Alternate Text with the familiar ones I had recited thousands of times. I became so occupied with the exercise of comparison that I really did not consider the full meaning of the revisions. With considerable surprise (an experience not unlike being on candid camera) I heard on my own lips the last three lines of the Affirmation. 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.