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the throne . He was quite prepared to be
tolerant towards Rome though the Gunpowder Plot
spoiled that . The Puritans had high hopes , for
James had grown up in Presbyterian Scotland ,
but those hopes were dashed . True , a new Prayer
Book was issued in 1604 but the Puritans
derived little comfort from it .
They objected to the word Absolution . So the phrase ' or
the remission of sins ' was added . But Absolution remained .
They objected to the word Confirmation . So the phrase
' or the laying on of hands upon children baptized and
able to render an account of their faith according
to the Catechism following ' were added . But Confirmation
remained . Other changes in the Book were equally
minor except for the new section on the Sacraments
added to the Catechism .
This indicated how ephemeral in the Church had
been the mood which produced the Black Rubric , for
it says that ' the Body and Blood of Christ , which are
verily and indeed taken and received by the
faithful in the Lord's Supper . ' It could hardly be more
definite . It was at this time , too , that King James made
himself immortal by becoming associated with
a Bible translation - the Authorized Version
( which was never actually authorized ! ) .
In that year Shakespeare had just turned
forty and had written Hamlet two years
before . Bacon was at work and Milton was
just learning to read . James was followed by
Charles , in whose reign came the Scottish
Prayer Book in 1637 . Significantly this made
a deliberate return to the Book of 1549 and
became the foster mother of some of the most
important Prayer Books in the Anglican
Communion .
Forever associated with Charles is Archbishop Laud ,
now so much nobler a figure than former historians
led us to believe . Laud was enthusiastically hated
by Calvinists and Puritans , and the sentiment was
mutual . But Laud was no Romanizer . One of his
first public acts was a hard-hitting battle with
the Jesuit , Fisher . But anyone who was friendly
with James and Charles , the Puritans argued ,
was necessarily a menace .
Or when he found cock-fighting going on in church ?
Laud made a positive approach . He set out to increase
a sense of reverence . The Prayer Book was to be respected
and so was the office of a bishop . Altars should be
altars and not any broken down , transportable
table which was handy for the most improbable uses .
Even worse is to laugh . Tremendous damage may be done to a child
by laughing at what are very real fears . As adults , we know
that their fears are groundless , indeed to us they appear laughable ,
but to a child they are very real . Not that I am suggesting
that children should be molly-coddled - they must be made
to face their fears , to see through them and come out on the
other side as victors .
To ridicule them only pushes them farther
into themselves , so that they become
unable to speak about it to anybody and
the seeds of any amount of trouble are sown ,
the harvest of which may still be being
reaped at forty or fifty . Far better to
agree with a child that a particular
situation is frightening , and then to face
it together until the child can see how
unnecessary its fears were .
Because situations which may contain
all the elements of fear can arise suddenly ,
it is a good idea to condition a child
to some extent against it . To keep a child
of twelve or thirteen under the
impression that nothing nasty ever
happens is not merely dishonest , it
is unwise . As I shall suggest in a
later chapter there are some situations
which occur less frequently than
In Gethsemane He prayed that the cup
should pass from Him . Jesus shows us
the way to face life . To see all the latent
frightening possibilities and yet by facing
them and knowing God is with us and
that , with Him , there is nothing that can
finally defeat us . More than that , that God
has something important to do with our
lives and that the nearer we get to Him ,
the stronger we become .
... Today A wonderful thought In the
dawn was given ... And the thought
Was this : That a secret plan Is hid in
my hand ; That my hand is big Big ,
Because of the plan That God , Who
dwells in my hand , Knows this
secret plan , Of the things He will
do for the world Using my hand .
Toyohiko Kagawa . Loving Saviour , who experienced
all human emotion , and whose sensitive
nature knows better than we do , what it is to
be really afraid , help us to know that when
we face life boldly , many of the shadows are