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Methodist Liturgy

Major Revisions of the General Services of the Church

Baptism, Lord's Supper, Marriage, Burial, and the Ordinal within the Methodist & United Methodist Traditions
by Kenneth Rowe, Ph.D.

Methodist Episcopal Church

1784 Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America
1792 Abbreviated "Sacramental Services" & minimal "Direction for Public Worship"
1860 Text revised
1864 Text revised
1884 Text revised
1891 Wesley's Sunday Service & Selected Psalms reprinted
1896 "Order of Worship" added to 1878 Hymnal
1905 Joint Hymnal with Methodist Episcopal Church, South, including "Order of Worship"
1916 Text revised
1932 Book of Services
1935 Joint Hymnal with four "Orders of Worship"

Methodist Episcopal Church, South

1854 Text revised
1858 Text revised
1867 Partial reprint of Wesley's Sunday Service
1870 Text revised
1905 Joint Hymnal with Methodist Episcopal Church including "Order of Worship"
1910 Text revised
1935 Joint Hymnal with four "Orders of Worship"

Methodist Church

1944 Book of Worship
1957 Wesley Orders of Common Prayer
1960 Book of Worship for trial use
1964 Book of Worship and Hymnal with two "Orders of Worship"

United Methodist Church

1972+ Supplemental Worship Resources
1984 Book of Services
1989 Hymnal with "Basic Pattern" & new General Services
1992 Book of Worship