TOWARDS THE IMPROVEMENT

OF

The Liturgy and Services

OF

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

"Faithful are the wounds of A FRIEND."-Proverbs.

LONDON:

JAMES NISBET AND CO., BERNERS-STREET.
MDCCCL.

MACINTOSH, PRINTER,

GREAT NEW-STREET, LONDON.

PREFATORY NOTE.

THE writer of the following pages was an attached friend of the Church of England, and devoted a considerable fortune to the support of its foreign and domestic Missions. This fact is stated in order to justify the motto on the title-page.

The Editor feels the grotesqueness of his position in conducting through the press such strictures on the Services of another Church; but the repeated entreaty of a dying friend left him no alternative. He has taken much liberty in abridging these "Hints;" he has not interfered with the writer's opinions.

JAMES HAMILTON.