ABSTRACT
The Daily Prayer Book which we are using for our Service this morning contains, as you know, a number of passages designed for private use exclusively. This characteristic it shares with its more conservative predecessors. If you examine the Jewish Service Books of the so-called ‘ orthodox ’ rite, you will find a large space allotted to private prayers. Some of those prayers are very beautiful, and many a discourse might not unprofitably be devoted to their consideration. For many of them, besides breathing a deep spirituality, throw an interesting side-light upon the inner history of our medieval forefathers. One example, about which a correspondent wrote to me a short time ago, I should like to bring under your notice this morning.
