THE IRISH PRAYER BOOK
We take this . opportunity for quoting the wise words of Dr. Salmon, then Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, at the conclusion of the Preface to the revised Prayer Book. They are singularly applicable to the present time. "And now, if some. shall complain that these changes are not enough, ami that we should. have taken this opportunity of making this Book as perfect m all respects as they think it niight.be made; or if others shall say that these .changes have been unnecessary or excessive, and that what : was - already excellent has been' impaired by doing that which m their opinion, -.might' well have been' left undone ; let .them, on the one side and the other, consider th at m en ' s. . j udgin e.nts of perfection are very various, and that what is imperfect with peace, is often better than what is otherwise more excellent without it/
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVII, Issue 11, 2 May 1927, Page 16
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152THE IRISH PRAYER BOOK Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVII, Issue 11, 2 May 1927, Page 16
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