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defense against all evil & mis
chief from the crafts and [aspects?]
etc – –
“The introduction of the Litany
where the Rubric now calls for
it, has always seemed to the
writer in some sort forced &
unnatural. There is a stopping
& beginning again, and that too
with a formal address to the sacred
Trinity – continuing a confession
of sinfulness & to which were more
appropriate to the commence
-ment of Prayer. It is a kind
of jar in the progress of the Prayers
one feels as the minister pauses
and turns over the leaves to get
at the Litany, as a passenger
(so to speak) on a rail-road
feels when the car in which
he is moving suddenly stops
at a “switch” so called to get