Excerpt from The Temple: A Book of Prayers

Some account of the origin of the prayers which compose this book may prove interesting to the reader and is perhaps necessary in order to prevent their improper use. Although they were mostly composed for use in congregational worship, the writer ventures to hope that they will not be used liturgically, and he does not recommend them as a model for public prayer. They were first of all written to serve the needs of a congregation which gathered on Sunday evenings to an ordinary Church Service, but which was composed very largely of those who had either lost faith in orthodox Christianity or were beginning to enquire their way into religion. The writer tried to put himself vicariously in the position of these people, and then to set his face Godward on their behalf. These prayers are gathered together mainly in the earlier part of the book, particularly in the sections called, "The Outer Gate, " and "The Evening Sacrifice." The prayers in the later sections were mostly used at Morning Service, when the congregation was of a more confessedly definite Christian type.

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