A FEW THOUGHTS ON CHURCH SUBJECTS; VIZ. UNIFORMITY, DAILY SERVICE, GOWN AND SURPLICE, BY THE REV. EDWARD SCOBELL, A.M. INCUMBENT OF ST. PETER'S, VERE STREET; VICAR OF TURVILLE, BUCKS; LONDON: J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY. 1843. UNIFORMITY. As the Subjects I have chosen are at present exciting an almost universal and unusually anxious attention, as much among the Laity as among the Clergy, I venture, as a member of another Diocese, to bear a small and unpretending share in the general and no doubt eventually useful discussion; not in a vain idea that I can contribute any new information, especially to my surrounding Brethren, from whom I am much more likely to receive it, but from a hope, that by helping to arrange a few facts, and to bring to a point some thoughts, which in the minds of several may have hitherto been scattered and indefinite, I may possibly with many, shorten the way towards forming a judgment, if they should think it worth their while to give these few pages a perusal : at all events, as truth is my only object, and what is said, is said with submission and respect, I trust I shall give offence to no one. No reflecting person can doubt the manifold advantages of a general uniformity in public worship. To have, as was the case in the English Church before the Reformation, "a Salisbury Use, and a Hereford Use, the Use of B |