Produced by Al Haines
The English Churchman's Library
THE CHRISTIAN USE
OF THE PSALTER
BY THE
REV. A. R. WHITHAM, M.A.
_Principal of Culham Training College, and formerly
Vice-Principal of Cuddesdan College_
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PREFACE
This little book, based on three Lectures delivered to the S. Paul's
Lecture Society in January, 1908, is not intended so much for the
scholar as for the plain man who goes to Church and loves the Prayer
Book, but finds the Psalms sometimes puzzling. They are certainly the
most difficult, though the most characteristic, part of the daily
offices of the Church. What has been attempted in these Lectures is
not to explain them in detail, but to suggest the broad lines of
interpretation which seem always to have been in the mind of the Church
in her use of the Psalter. A few additional helps have been suggested
in the Notes.
CULHAM, 1908.
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CONTENTS
PAGE
PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
_LECTURE I_
PART I.--GENERAL PRINCIPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1