many years been there observed. First, by substituting a table of Proper Psalms
for sixteen holy days. And secondly, another table containing ten series of
selected Psalms was long ago introduced into the Prayer-Book, "to be read,
instead of the Psalms for the day, at the discretion of the Minister." The
American services are thus enriched in no ordinary degree, and made suitable to
time and occasion. A further object has been to escape the imperative use of the
minatory passages in the Psalms, a subject which has long exercised the American
mind.. The alter native table entirely avoids these; so that it is in the power
of the Minister, when they occur in the Psalms for the day, to read out of the
other table instead.
