There are some of us who think that only to have succeeded in replacing the magnificat and the Nunc Dimittis in the Evening Prayer is of itself a sufficient reward for years of effort, but this is only a small part of our harvest.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
In such a process the magnificat and the Nunc dimittis would play an important part; as would also certain "ancient collects" of which we have heard much of late.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
The most sensitive critic could not, on the score of taste, find fault with the replacement in the Evening Prayer of the magnificat and the Nunc dimittis, nor of bringing back a few of the Versicles that in the English book follow the Lord's Prayer, nor yet of our being allowed to say, "Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, Lord," rather than "O Lord, our Heavenly Father, by whose Almighty power we have been preserved this day."
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington