Excerpt from Prayers for Social and Family Worship: For the Use of Soldiers, Sailors, Colonists, Sojourners in India, and Other Persons, at Home or Abroad, Who Are Deprived of the Ordinary Services of a Christian Ministry; Also Prayers and Thanksgivings on Particular Occasions The General Assembly of the Church Of Scotland has for many years authorised the publication, under the title of 'aids to Devotion, ' of three small volumes - via, 'prayers for Social and Family Worship, ' an abridged edition of the same for the use of Soldiers and Sailors, and Prayers for Family Worship.' The first two of these are intended specially for the use of members of the Church of Scot land who are deprived of the ordinary services of the Christian ministry, and the third is for general use. These Books of Devotion have met with favour able acceptance, and have had a large circulation. They have been carefully revised from time to time by the Committee on Aids to Devotion. What was best in former editions has been carefully preserved in this edition Of 'prayers for Social and Family Worship.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.