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Elmsdale United Church Elmsdale, P.E.I. Pastor: Rev. Roland Hutchinson p Organist: Mrs. Blanche Crockett

Guests: Presbytery Men's Choir Pianist: Mr; Henry Clarke Soloists:

Mrs. Anna Hutchinson Mr. Neil McGregor

November 18, 1984 V 7230 p.m.

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The Order of Service this evening helps us re— capture the flavour of the Presbyterian portion of our Inited Church heritage and of part of the early life of this congregation. The Presbyterian settlers would have been familiar with the order of service called the Westminister “Directory”, prepared in 1645 and adopted by the Scottish Church that year after some revision. The "Directory” service had been influenced by John Knox's service ”Forms of Prayer“written in 1556, which had been the first Reformed Service in English. The ”Psalter and Church Practices" of l539 was also an influence on Scottish/Presbyterian worship.

The Scottish Church did not hold fast to the Directory very before changing it: instead of one O.T. and one N.T. chapter each Sunday, no lesson was read, but a passage would be preached on at length, usually for an hour; the doxology after each psalm was dropped, as was the Lord‘s Prayer; communion was held only quarterly instead of monthly due to the shortage of ministers, ‘1

In Canada, the Presbyterian service maintained its austerity but reflected the change so prominent in the pioneer way of life. Scripture lessons, the Lord's Prayer, hymns other than metrical (sung) psalms, a