IN pursuance of a joint resolution of the House of Bishops, and the House of Clerical and
Lay Deputies, adopted at the General Convention assembled in the city of Philadelphia, in October, in the year of our LORD, 1844; We, the subscribers, a Committee appointed for the purpose, do hereby set forth this corrected STANDARD PRAYER BOOK; being printed from stereotype plates, executed by H. W. HEWET, of New York, under the direction of the Rt. Rev. Bishops MEADE, IVES, and LEE, and the Rev. Doctors ANTHON, COIT, and MEAD, a Committee appointed under a resolution of the General Convention of 1841, to prepare a Standard Prayer Book, the Articles, Offices, Psalms in Metre, selected from the Psalms of David, and Hymns.
And we hereby declare this Prayer Book, so corrected, to be THE STANDARD.
Rector of St. Mark's Church, New York.
JONA. M. WAINWRIGHT,
Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, New York.
WM. COOPER MEAD,
Rector of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, Conn.
Rector of Trinity Church, New Rochelle, New York.