THE

MANUAL

OF

FAMILY PRAYERS

FOR

CHRISTIAN HOUSEHOLDS

BY THE

REV. R. H. BAYNES, M.A.
Vicar of S. Michael and All Angels, Coventry.

LONDON:

J. AND W. RIDER, PRINTERS,

BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.

TO THE RIGHT REVEREND

enry,

LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER,

THIS

MANUAL OF FAMILY PRAYERS.

WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S KIND PERMISSION,

Is very gratefully Inscribed.

PREFACE.

THERE are already so many Manuals for Family Prayer, that at first it might seem an almost needless work to add to their number. And yet, amongst all those that I have carefully examined, I have found none, in my judgment, so entirely satisfactory as to preclude the hope of improvement in this most important part of the home life of a Christian family. For members of the Church of England, the old plan of one long prayer, extending over two or three pages, seems to me most undesirable, and a strange contrast to our Common Prayer