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.
CONTENTS
PAGE
PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [v]
LECTURE I
PART I.--GENERAL PRINCIPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . [1] PART II.--DIFFICULTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [22]
LECTURE II
CHRIST IN THE PSALTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [43]
LECTURE III
THE CHURCH IN THE PSALTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [73]
NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [101]
APPENDIX
BRIEF SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE CHRISTIAN USE OF EACH PSALM . [107]
INDEX OF PSALMS REFERRED TO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [142]