The Winchester Profession of Belief appears at an appropriate place in nearly every service; and, as an alternative, a creed em bodying the five points affirmed at the sessions of the General Convention held in Chicago and in Boston. In the musical portion of the work the aim has been to se cure, not originality or novelty, but the greatest simplicity compat ible with sterling quality and needful variety. Thus, while the musical rendering may be attained by those congregations whose Choral outfit is of the most meagre kind, the metropolitan church will, it is believed, find acceptable a literal use of the services as here arranged; especially as opportunity is given for the additional or alternative use of selections which can be rendered adequately only by accomplished choirs. The Editors accept full responsibility for the final form in which the services appear. Acknowledgments are due, however, to many persons, both of the clergy and of the laity, whose inter est~in the enrichment of the forms of divine worship has been manifested in many valuable suggestions. No one could under take to prepare a book of worship for the Universalist Church without recognizing the transcendent services of Charles H. Leonard, D. D., in the Book of Prayer. That book has been freely used both for substance and for suggestion; and, in not a few instances, entire services have been taken from it.
