5 John Wesley loved the Book of Common Prayer, declaring in September 1784: “I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England.” 3 John Wesley’s writings were studded with quotations from the Book of Common Prayer almost as numerous as biblical quotations. The Book of Common Prayer is an outline for what the church does to become itself, to become what it is by grace, the body of Christ. 4 John Wesley, “A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, The Works of John Wesley. Revue française de civilisation britannique est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International. The Book of Common Prayer. Thus, on 13 September 1739, John Wesley recorded the following episode in his Journal: A serious clergyman desired to know in what points we differed from the Church of England. , http://wesley.nnu.edu/john-wesley/the-sermons-of-john-wesley-1872-edition/sermon-132-on-laying-the-foundation-of-the-new-chapel-near-the-city-road-london (DOA: 26/6/2013). See more. This divide continued for most of the 19th century and things only began to change in 1860 when an increasing number of Methodist denominations started to use new service books. John Wesley, “On Laying The Foundation Of The New Chapel, Near The City-Road, London” in John Wesle, John Wesley found himself constantly repeating that the Methodists were, and had to remain, members of the Church of England. It then struck me, “These people draweth nigh unto me with their lips,” [Mt XV, 8] &c. (…) I took my hat as soon as they had done the. accomplished, even if the Methodist movement long continued to claim that its rightful place was within the Church of England. The Book of Common Prayer is a resource for those who appreciate liturgical worship, and it contains some beautifully written prayers. As when John Wesley was alive, Methodists still had the obligation to attend Sunday services in their parish churches (and to take communion if the Lord’s Supper was celebrated), as well as to participate in the Methodist preaching service on the same day. I (London: John Mason/Wesleyan Conference Office, 1862), 193 [hereafter, Objections to the Introduction of the Liturgy of the Established Church into Wesleyan Methodist Chapels, Considered and Refuted, By a Layman, The Wesleyans vindicated from the calumnies contained in a pamphlet entitled, “The Church of England compared with Wesleyan Methodism”, in a dialogue between a Churchman and a Methodist. All rights reserved. Cambridge University Press, 2006 edition. It seemed to John Wesley that these things stood in the way of real conversions. When the 1936 service book was superseded in 1975 by, , the (Wesleyan) first order was maintained and the second was replaced by a new version entitled “Sunday service”, showing the influence of the Liturgical Movement. It seems that non-Wesleyan ministers would use a general outline which served as a basis for a service which they devised rather freely, alternating sermons, hymns, readings and impromptu prayers.38. The Book of Public Prayers and Services; for the use of the People called Methodists, John Bate was probably not the only Wesleyan to entertain such fears, but, The Book of Public Prayers and Services for the use of the People called Methodists, Its content must have reassured those Wesleyans who were worried by such an innovation since it contained many elements taken from. However, since the late 19th century it has become a lasting inspiration for the denomination. 41 The Sunday Service of the Methodists late in Connexion with the Rev. Although the Book of Common Prayer was instrumental in shaping the spirituality of John Wesley and his early disciples, its place was later disputed within the Methodist Church. John Wesley, A.M., in the Year 1744, , vol. Although the Book of Common Prayer was instrumental in shaping the spirituality of John Wesley and his early disciples, its place was later disputed within the Methodist Church. These include: It is difficult to answer the question with certainty, but two elements tend to indicate that it was indeed acted upon, and that Methodist services long followed the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer. 3The status of The Book of Common Prayer within Methodism illustrates the ambiguous relation of Methodism to the Church of England. ), non-Wesleyan traditions and the interdenominational Liturgical Movement. 43 John Bate, The Desire for a Methodist Liturgy: A Protest (London: E. Stock, 1880), 5. The Book of Common Prayer contains the liturgies, prayers, and theology of the Episcopal Church. He condensed the medieval system of seven daily services to two, and simplified the scheme of Bible-reading. 18:37 . - Duration: 18:37. In the early years of Methodism, itinerant preaching often led John Wesley and his assistants to utter prayers when they believed to be moved by the Holy Spirit to do so. They don't fit quite right and you're kind of clunking around and you're thinking, would I ever have the spiritual maturity to pray these prayers on my own? 35 Thomas Jackson remarked in 1842: “For the Church of England as a whole and as a Protestant Establishment I have long entertained what I conceive to be a just and sincere respect; nor shall anything absolutely alienate me from her ordinances”, [Thomas Jackson], An Answer to the Question, Why are you a Wesleyan Methodist? as well as the Black Rubric in the Lord’s Supper. In what can logically be considered as the statement of faith of the Methodists, John Wesley had deleted two articles which could have undermined the Anglican credentials of Methodism: _ Article XX, whose opening sentence is: “The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith”, _ Article XXIII, according to which “It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching or ministering the sacraments in the congregation, before he be lawfully called and sent to execute the same.”14. Nine years later, in 1837, a great Methodist figure, the minister and historian Thomas Jackson (1783-1873), twice president of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference (the main British Methodist denomination), challenged his reader to find a Wesleyan chapel where the Book of Common Prayer was not in use: “[Y]ou shall attend any of the chapels where our regular ministers officiate on the forenoon of the Lord’s Day as you please, and if you do not find the liturgy or the lessons read, I will forfeit five pounds [that is to say, three months of the wages of an unmarried Wesleyan Minister]”. Common Prayer Means Never Praying Alone. John Wesley, “On Laying The Foundation Of The New Chapel, Near The City-Road, London” in John Wesley. Journal and Diary [hereafter Journal], ed. It was one of the instruments of the Protestant Reformation in England, and was also adapted and revised for use in other churches in the Anglican Communion. Congregational responses were similarly scarce, no doubt to give them more latitude50. Environmental Concerns in the United Kingdom Since the Nineteenth Century, Moving Toward Brexit: the UK 2017 General Election. It's a way of redirecting our hearts to the prayers of the psalmist, to the prayers of Christians throughout church history, as a way of identifying with them and then seeking that those prayers and those longings and desires would be true of us just as it was true of them. 39 The Methodist New Connexion was the only Methodist denomination never to have adopted the word “Church” in its official name, but the denomination into which it merged in 1907, the United Methodist Church, did. 11; The Appeals to Men of reason and Religion and Certain Related Open Letters, ed. Or what means to pray that God's kingdom would come. (1837), 2nd edition (London: John Mason, 1837), 22. However, he kept these “things indifferent” which did not hinder the task of spreading the Gospel that he had assigned to himself and to his disciples. The Book of Common Prayer Is Still a Big Deal Alan Jacobs explains why the nearly 500-year-old Anglican prayer book retains its influence, and why it … It should be noted that, in addition to possibly bringing spiritual benefits, the use of the Book of Common Prayer (or of its abridged version) had the advantage of being a token of respectability for the Methodists who used it, while also bringing credence to the oft-repeated claim that Wesleyans represented the purest Anglican orthodoxy. Letter to Lord North and Lord Dartmouth (14 June 1775) in John Wesley. Given that the use of the Book of Common Prayer was supposed to warrant the Anglican orthodoxy of the Methodists (cf. The Methodist New Connexion was the only Methodist denomination never to have adopted the word “Chu. This accusation was made more particularly by non-Wesleyans, that is to say those Methodists who had broken away from the main denomination from 1797, usually because of the excessively great powers given to ministers in Methodism. However, a growing majority of Methodists wanted the itinerant preachers to be given true ministerial status. 18To what extent was the Conference’s injunction to use the Book of Common Prayer or the Prayer-Book based Sunday Service of the Methodists obeyed? In which category did John Wesley put the Book of Common Prayer and more generally fixed forms of worship? However, they appeared in an abridged version, the doctrinal statement of the Church of England being reduced to 25 Articles. 21 Minutes of the Methodist Conferences, From the First, Held in London, by the Late Rev. Thus this Anglican Book of Common Prayer does what liturgy at its best ought to do, it fosters unity horizontally, in space as it were, and expresses unity vertically, across the centuries of our tradition stretching back as far as the bringing of Christianity to the British Isles in the earliest days of the Church. W. Reginald Ward & Richard P. Heintzenrater, vol. 2When Methodism was founded in 1738, John Wesley had no intention to split off from the Church of England – in which he had been a priest for ten years – , but, on the contrary, he wanted to revitalize it from the inside. The continued relevance of Anglican liturgy in a denomination which had to come to terms with its separate identity is a testimony both to the appeal and adaptability of the Anglican liturgical tradition. In addition to this reiteration, the Conference of 1792 repeated the prohibition against holding preaching services at the same time as the Sunday service in the parish church.24. But many of those prayers are based in scripture. The Book of Common Prayer is a treasure chest full of devotional and teaching resources for individuals and congregations, but it is also the primary symbol of our unity. The Book of Common Prayer (1662). Without retelling the history of Methodism, its birth and rise in the British Isles and then in the colonies (notably in North America). [Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1984], 153). Non-Wesleyans, on the contrary, eager to distinguish themselves from the detested Church of England, did not use a set form of worship for most of the 19th century and their services were generally improvised. John Wesley, A.M. – Standard Edition. obeyed? Objections to the Introduction of the Liturgy of the Established Church into Wesleyan M, The Wesleyans vindicated from the calumnies contained in a pamphlet entitled, “Th, Born in Song: Methodist Worship in Britain, To what extent was the Conference’s injunction to use the Book of Common Prayer or the Prayer-Book based. 23In the early 19th century, a clear difference existed between Wesleyan Methodists (who generally cherished the Book of Common Prayer and mainly refused the “Nonconformist” epithet) and non-Wesleyans, who had no consideration for “popish” prayers and even refused any set liturgy. The name was misleading since it contained offices for other days o, Time was not to modify John Wesley’s opinion, as he dramatically showed almost fifty years later when he published a service book for his disciples in the United States. What Does It Mean to "Pray Without Ceasing"? Tree of … Such a step demonstrated the self-confidence of the Methodist denominations which, one after the other, had incorporated the word “Church” (instead of “Society” or “Connexion”) in their official names.39. The United Kingdom and the Crisis in the 1970s, The May 2016 Devolved Elections in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and London: Convergences and Divergences, Forms of Activism in the United Kingdom (Grassroots Activism, Culture, Media), Economic Crisis in the United Kingdom Today: Causes and Consequences, The 2015 General Election in the United Kingdom, The Scottish Independence Referendum of September 2014, Heresy and Orthodoxy in the British Isles, Minorities and Integration in Britain and the Commonwealth. For him this Anglican identity was based on two main features: Sunday service attendance in the parish church and doctrinal unity with the Church of England. ; the second, on the contrary, was very simple and closely resembled plain non-Wesleyan ceremonies. George Eayrs, William Townsend & Herbert Workman, eds. The present situation is an interesting compromise and today’s British Methodist liturgy is the result of the quadruple influence of the Book of Common Prayer, John Wesley (extempore prayers have always been allowed in the united Church since 1936. The Conference was then torn between the desire to have the itinerant preachers administer communion,25 and the desire not to break with the Church of England. Tout en rompant avec l’anglicanisme, les méthodistes wesleyens (majoritaires), fidèles en cela aux souhaits et à la pratique du fondateur, John Wesley, étaient, en effet, officiellement tenus de fonder leurs offices sur le Book of Common Prayer, tout en laissant une place aux prières impromptues, à laquelle leur fondateur accordait également une grande importance. The other ceremonies show the same twin influence of the Liturgical Movement (notably the “Marriage Service”, practically unchanged between 1975 and 1999, which bears a strong resemblance to the Anglican and Roman Catholic services, ) and of the Book of Common Prayer (transmitted through the “Sunday Service” and the Wesleyan tradition). Paragraph 9 of the Plan of Pacification read: “The Lord’s Supper shall be always administered in England, according to the form of the Established Church: but the person who administers, shall have full liberty to give out hymns, and to use exhortations and extemporary prayers”. In another liturgical illustration of the ambiguous place of Methodists within the Church of England, the itinerant preacher, Henry Moore, who presided over John Wesley’s burial decided to use the Office for the Dead from the Book of Common Prayer. The Sunday Service of the Methodists late in Connexion with the Rev. I know he doesn't quite understand everything that it means to say, when we say, "hallowed be your name." The same dichotomy remained when Methodist Connexions, one after the other, took to producing their own service books. The continued relevance of Anglican liturgy in a denomination which had to come to terms with its separate identity is a testimony both to the appeal and adaptability of the Anglican liturgical tradition. I discovered the Book of Common Prayer, it's been seven or eight years ago now. Finally, we will see to what extent these 19th- and 20th- century rituals were indebted to the. and it also allowed extempore prayers in the Orders for the Lord’s Supper and Baptism. 7 John Wesley, “On Laying The Foundation Of The New Chapel, Near The City-Road, London” in John Wesley, Sermons, http://wesley.nnu.edu/john-wesley/the-sermons-of-john-wesley-1872-edition/sermon-132-on-laying-the-foundation-of-the-new-chapel-near-the-city-road-london (DOA: 26/6/2013). There is no doubt that some Ministers feared the introduction of a (compulsory) service book which would eliminate any possibility of uttering impromptu prayers. (London: Epworth Press, 1965-1988), 4 vols; ] ed. 34 [Thomas Jackson], The Wesleyans vindicated…, op. The earliest work, published in 1549, was the first prayer book to contain the complete forms of service for daily and Sunday worship in the English language. It is particularly visible in the version of the Thirty-Nine Articles which, as was customary in all editions of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, were included in the 1786 service book. He freed himself from everything that could check the progression of Methodism, such as the life-long appointments of ministers to their livings, or the monopoly on preaching then enjoyed by ordained ministers in the Church of England. All the saints’ feast days disappeared. 3 John Wesley, The Letters of the Rev. The former seldom followed the framework of the Book of Common Prayer, and indications concerning postures and gestures were very rare. 9 Frank Baker, op. VII (London: The Epworth Press, 1931), 239. John Wesley attached so much importance to this, that he even had the following indication included in his revisions of the Lord’s Supper and Baptism: “Then the Elder [i. e. the Minister], if he see it expedient, may put up (conclude with) a prayer extempore”. The separation between the two denominations was thus. 30Similarly, the Book of Services for the Use of the Bible Christian Church opened with an explanatory foreword: [T]here are certain special and solemn occasions in our Church life, which ought not to be left entirely to the discretion of the ministers and other presiding brethren; occasions when both ministers and people would gladly welcome the aid of a service book.48, 31The authors also expressed their desire that their work should be used more as an assisting tool than as a compelling rule preventing any innovation from ministers.49. For him this Anglican identity was based on two main features: Sunday service attendance in the parish church and doctrinal unity with the Church of England. In their view, Church of England services were still too similar to Roman Catholic services. Put simply, the Book of Common Prayer is the comprehensive service book for Anglican churches (churches that trace their lineage back to the Church of England). 23 (1962): 120 and John C. Bowmer, “Ordinations in Wesleyan Methodism, 1791-1850”, Minutes of the Methodist Conferences, From the First, Held in London, by the Late Rev. The Conference was then torn between the desire to have the itinerant preachers administer communion. 1 Co., XIV, 25]; and so he will be, while you continue in the Church: but whenever the Methodists leave the Church, God will leave them.”7. 42 Paragraph 9 of the Plan of Pacification read: “The Lord’s Supper shall be always administered in England, according to the form of the Established Church: but the person who administers, shall have full liberty to give out hymns, and to use exhortations and extemporary prayers”, MMC (1795), vol. 8In Wesley’s view Methodists were Anglicans. Methodists from non-Wesleyan backgrounds thus discovered offices following an Anglican framework, even if two orders of service for the Lord’s Supper had been produced. Could a similar history be given of the use of read prayers? the above quotations by Thomas Jackson), to discontinue the use of the Book of Common Prayer and of The Sunday Service of the Methodists could be interpreted as renouncing this orthodoxy; it is however true that, when the Wesleyan Conference ordered the publication of a service book to replace the Book of Common Prayer in 1880, this objection seemed irrelevant to a great many Methodists. 20 (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press), 91. John Wesley, “A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, John Wesley loved the Book of Common Prayer, declaring in September 1784: “I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England.”, John Wesley’s writings were studded with quotations from the Book of Common Prayer almost as numerous as biblical quotations. In another liturgical illustration of the ambiguous place of Methodists within the Church of England, the itinerant preacher, Henry Moore, who presided over John Wesley’s burial decided to use the Office for the Dead from the Book of Common Prayer.18 However Moore, although ordained an “elder” by John Wesley in 178419, would not have been authorised to perform the ritual by the established Church, since the Book of Common Prayer explicitly specifies that only a priest ordained by a bishop in the apostolic succession was allowed to read the office.20, 16In the years immediately following the death of John Wesley, the Conference, the supreme body of Methodism, composed of all its itinerant preachers, regularly protested its fidelity to the established Church. Forms for the Administration of Baptism, the Solemnization of matrimony, maternal Thanksgiving after Child-birth, Administration of the Lord’s Supper, Renewing our Covenant with God, and for the Burial of the dead, drawn up by the Order of the Primitive Methodist Conference, for the use of such Primitive Methodist Ministers as may require them. This divide continued for most of the 19. century and things only began to change in 1860 when an increasing number of Methodist denominations started to use new service books. put his movement outside the Church’s control. First, The Sunday Service of the Methodists was reissued twenty-seven times between 1792 and 1882 (a new edition every 3 years and 4 months on average), which would imply that the book was fairly successful. What is the Book of Common Prayer (AKA “BCP” or “Prayer Book”)? Everything was about pray whatever's on your heart at whatever time. Another argument against the adoption of a specifically Methodist service book was linked to a peculiar feature of the movement created by John Wesley: . John Wesley, A.M. – Standard Edition, [hereafter Letters] ed. and chose not to prescribe any service book to their preachers. In the early years of Methodism, itinerant preaching often led John Wesley and his assistants to utter prayers when they believed to be moved by the Holy Spirit to do so.40 John Wesley attached so much importance to this, that he even had the following indication included in his revisions of the Lord’s Supper and Baptism: “Then the Elder [i. e. the Minister], if he see it expedient, may put up (conclude with) a prayer extempore”.41 Methodist Ministers had continued this usage, guaranteed by the 1795 Plan of Pacification,42 and it still exists today. There is no doubt that some Ministers feared the introduction of a (compulsory) service book which would eliminate any possibility of uttering impromptu prayers. The document stipulated that Methodist services should not be held at the same time as the office in the parish church but that, if it was nonetheless the case, the Book of Common Prayer, or at least the version abridged by John Wesley, should be used. and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. did not contain any of the three references to the. A Brief History. Hugh Bourne, for example, who co-founded the Primitive Methodists in 1812 (the main non-Wesleyan denomination), would use the image of the “great whore” from the Book of Revelation — usually reserved to excoriate Popery— to describe an Anglican service: After the service began, it ran through my mind, “get thee out of this place [cf. The 1979 edition of the Book of Common Prayer is the official liturgical book of the US-based Episcopal Church. It included a new liturgy in English, as opposed to the old liturgy in Latin. I answered: “To the best of my knowledge, in none. Rather than producing an original service book, John Wesley chose to publish an abridged version of the Book of Common Prayer entitled. John Telford, vol. However, this decision can be seen as a sign of John Wesley’s ambiguous position with regard to the Church of England. This accusation was made more particularly by non-Wesleyans, that is to say those Methodists who had broken away from the main denomination from 1797, usually because of the excessively great powers given to ministers in Methodism. John Wesley’s Sunday Service of the Methodists of North America, ., 250. John Wesley, M. A., with other, Paragraph 9 of the Plan of Pacification read: “The Lord’s Supper shall be always administered in En, The Desire for a Methodist Liturgy: A Protest. In addition to this reiteration, the Conference of 1792 repeated the prohibition against holding preaching services at the same time as the Sunday service in the parish church. However, they appeared in an abridged version, the doctrinal statement of the Church of England being reduced to 25 Articles. In their view, Church of England services were still too similar to Roman Catholic services. With every schism, the newly born Methodist Churches (the Methodist New Connexion in 1797, the Primitive Methodists in 1812, the Bible Christians in 1815 and the United Methodist Free Churches in 1857) rejected the use of the Book of Common Prayer or of. (Nashville, TN: Quarterly Review, 1984), 17 [hereafter, “[T]hey that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be the sons of God, by the Holy Ghost are visibly signed and sealed; faith is confirmed, and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God.”. Women in Britain since 1900: Evolution, Revolution or 'Plus ça change...' ? John Telford, vol. Verses of the Bible are quoted directly (for example, Opening Sentences in the Daily Office and Offertory Sentences in the Eucharist service) and whole […] This was why in 1880 the itinerant preacher John Bate advocated “the absolute and universal abandonment of Prayer-Books”43 so that Wesleyans might come back to the general use of extempore prayer, upon which he marvelled with these words: [W]hat power with God, what pouring of the soul before Him, what signal revelations of the Divine presence in light, comfort, peace, salvation, what overwhelming glory falling upon the congregations, should we see! The Methodist New Connexion was the only Methodist denomination never to have adopted the word “Church” in its official name, but the denomination into which it merged in 1907, the United Methodist Church, did. Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David. the above quotations by Thomas Jackson), to discontinue the use of the Book of Common Prayer and of. I was going through sort of a dry spell in my prayer life and was sensing that I grew up in a traditional that valued spontaneous prayer above all. A way out was found in 1795 thanks to the “Plan of Pacification”: this compromise solution reaffirmed the link between Methodism and the Church of England, while at the same time allowing for the administration of the Lord’s Supper and of Baptism in preaching houses by the itinerant preachers, provided a majority of the faithful were in favour and subject to ultimate approval by the Conference. Christianity.com is a member of the Salem Web Network of sites including: Copyright © 2020, Christianity.com. The 2019 General Elections in the UK, Revisiting the UK’s North-South Divide: The Changing Face of the North, Political and Economic Change in the UK: British and Scottish Perspectives, The NHS at Seventy: Framing Health Policy in Britain, British Civilisation Studies and Interdisciplinarity, A Long Awakening? It's like trying on Dad's shoes. I was doing the same lists, I was praying the same kinds of things. The Book of Common Prayer, or Prayer Book, is largely the work of one man, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer. But I trust that even as we say these words, that as time goes by, as he grows as a Christian, as he gets older, that prayer is going to be filled with more and more content and eventually his heart will be shaped to actually understand and to love those prayers. 33 David M. Chapman, Born in Song: Methodist Worship in Britain (Warrington: Church in the Market Place Publications, 2006), 201. 4Without retelling the history of Methodism, its birth and rise in the British Isles and then in the colonies (notably in North America)2, let it be noted that John Wesley showed a good deal of pragmatism when it came to organizing and leading his movement. 25 The question is mentioned in the Minutes of every Conference from 1792 to 1795 (ibid. If the structure remained the same in the two service books, the father of Methodism introduced several changes. Eight years later, when the Wesleyan Conference allowed its ministers to celebrate weddings, they were asked to use the Book of Common Prayer ritual revised by John Wesley in, Thanks to other testimonies, it is possible to assert with confidence that the Book of Common Prayer (or its abridged version) was greatly used by the Wesleyans. First authorized for use in the Church of England in 1549, it was radically revised in 1552, with subsequent minor revisions in 1559, 1604, and 1662. The full title of the Primitive Methodist service book, for example, was. (…)”, 16 “[T]hey that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be the sons of God, by the Holy Ghost are visibly signed and sealed; faith is confirmed, and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God.”. 15The death of John Wesley, aged 88, on 2 March 1791, left the movement bereft of its charismatic founder, thanks to whom Methodism had flourished beyond all expectations. The name was misleading since it contained offices for other days of the week. However, its influence stretches across many other denominations and even into common culture. After describing the (Wesleyan and non-Wesleyan) Methodist vision of the liturgy of the established Church in the 18th and 19th centuries, this article will study the reasons why the British Methodist Churches adopted set liturgies from the 1860s, and how they were created. 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