It is vain to say that the change is still no more than what was--contemplated by the Book of Common Prayer.

They naturally interpret that book by what they have been accustomed to from childhood.

The vicar's innovations were really most inoffensive, and well within even a narrow reading of the rubric.

The fault lay in the fact that they were innovations, so far as the practice of that parish was concerned.

So the old folk raised their voices in a chorus of horror, and when they met gossiped over the awful downfall of the faith.