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FOR

Congregational Worship

"God is Spirit, and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth"

IN LUCE
VERITATIS

BOSTON

AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION

COPYRIGHT, 1914

BY THE AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION

COMPOSITION AND ELECTROTYPING
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

PRESSWORK AND BINDING

F. H. GILSON COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS.

764.9 Unit. 6

238 1914

PREFACE

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The Book of Services for Congregational Worship is the outcome of the labors of a Committee appointed on November 14, 1911, by the Directors of the American Unitarian Association. The Committee consisted of Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, Rev. Howard N. Brown, Rev. Thomas Van Ness, Rev. William S. Jones, Rev. John H. Lathrop, Rev. Sydney B. Snow. The book has been prepared to meet the growing demand. for a convenient and well-considered manual of worship adapted to the use of the Free Churches of the Congregational order. For this reason the simple order of service adopted is the form already familiar in many of these churches. It has had a natural growth and is, apparently, best suited to their common requirements. No part of the book as it stands bears the stamp of any single mind. It is the product of a group of minds, fairly representative of different

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