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;. LINDBLOM S PRAYER BOOK. CONFIRMATION. 355
teenth and eighteenth centuries. It contained no imposi
tion of hands, and it was to be administered by the pastor
with no reference to the bishop or his visitation, and the
blessing was not at all specially appropriate. It had. how
ever, a touching and suitable prayer to our Lord to keep
His children in dangers and temptations. Even as it was
it met with considerable opposition.
The most recent form of this rite, adopted in 1894, is
certainly better. It has the following appropriate scrip
tural benediction before the Lord s Prayer:
"
The Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ give you according to the riches
of His glory that ye may be strengthened with might
through His Spirit in the inner man and filled with all the
fulness of God." A prayer based on the one I have already
mentioned follows the Lord s Prayer. The form is, there
fore, clearly sufficient. It has, however, no imposition of
hands. I am informed that in some dioceses at least a
commission to confirm is contained in the letters of priests
orders, and, therefore, it
may be said that priests perform
this duty as deputies of the bishop. Laying on of hands
is also used by some priests just before they administer the
first communion. I am inclined to think that in one or two
dioceses the rite is still administered occasionally by
bishops.
But the greatest blot upon the new Prayer Book of 1811
was the alteration which it made in the service for the
ordination of priests. Happily, the service for the
consecration of a bishop was not essentially changed. It
was called
"
How a bishop shall be set in his office
"
(Huru en Biskop i Ambetet skall installas) and the word
consecration was not used. But it was clearly a service for
consecrating a new bishop not merely one for his enthrone
ment. It was taken for granted that consecration to a
bishop s office is coincident, as it
generally is, with his
entrance into a particular see. That an act of primary
appointment is in question is shown also by the fact
that the person to be
"
set in office
"
appears first clothed
only in a surplice or rochet. He does not receive the
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