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FOURTH ARTICLE

THE INDIAN LITURGY

From the "Calcutta Review," 1850

1. Origines Liturgicae; or, Antiquities of the English Ritual, and a Dissertation on Primitive Liturgies. By the Rev. William Palmer, M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. 2 vols. London, 1845.
2. Origines Ecclesiasticae ; or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church. By the Rev. Joseph Bingham, M.A., formerly Fellow of University College, Oxford; and afterwards Rector, etc. 9 vols. London, 1844. Books XIII., XIV., XV., relating to Divine Worship in the ancient Church.
3. The Syrian Churches: their Early History, Liturgies, and Literature, etc. By J. W. Etheridge. London, 1846.
4. Duáe Amím kí Kitâb, our Sákriminton kí Tartíb, aur Kalísíya kí Dusrí Rasm aur Dastúron kí England aur Ireland kí muttahid Kalísíyá ke taríque ke mutábiq. Aqád-i-Dín ke Sáth. Agra. Yatîmon ke Chhápe kháne men chhápí gai. 1847. [The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland. With the Articles of Religion. Agra. Printed at the Orphan Press, 1847.]

WHATEVER comes into constant and familiar contact with man, and yet commands his respect or veneration, must of necessity exercise a wide and a deep influence upon him. Nor is this effect confined to the leading features of such an agency; it attaches also to its minor and even accidental details. Thus, legendary stories connected with the people's faith, and ritual