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Eutaxia, or the Presbyterian Liturgies: Historical Sketches. By a Minister of the Presbyterian Church. The author, Charles W. Baird, was a man peculiarly fitted to render the church important service, such as indeed he did render in this volume, and in the field of Huguenot history which he divided with his brother, Henry M. Baird. How great the loss to historical theology through his protracted feebleness of body and his death may be conjectured, not measured. This brief volume awakened an interest in the subject of it in America, and in Scotland, and among the nonconformists of England. To American Presbyterians in general it was something like a surprise to be reminded that the sisterhood of the
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Reformed sects were committed by their earliest and best traditions in favor of liturgic uses in public worship. At about the same time the fruitful discussions of the Mercersburg controversy were in progress in the German Reformed Church.
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Mercersburg found fault with the common style of extemporaneous public prayer, and advocated a revival of the liturgical church service of the Reformation period, but so modified and reproduced as to be adapted to the existing wants of Protestant congregations. [388:1] Each of these discussions was followed by a proposed book of worship. In 1857 was published by Mr. Baird
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A Book of Public Prayer, Compiled from the Authorized Formularies of Worship of the Presbyterian Church, as Prepared by the Reformers, Calvin, Knox, Bucer, and others ; and in 1858 was set forth by a committee of the German Reformed Church
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A Liturgy, or Order of Christian Worship. In 1855 St. Peter's Presbyterian Church of Rochester published its
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Church-book,