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Episcopal Church. Army and Navy Commission
Created as a church commission rather than an individual writer, this body produced a compact wartime prayer book meant to travel with service members. Its work reflects a practical, pastoral effort to bring worship, comfort, and familiar Episcopal devotion to soldiers and sailors.
1 Audiobook
A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors
by Episcopal Church. Army and Navy Commission
About the author
The Army and Navy Commission was a ministry body of the Episcopal Church, credited as the author of A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors. Library and ebook records identify the book as a 1941 publication prepared for the Army and Navy Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church and issued by the Church Pension Fund.
Because this is a commission instead of a single person, there is no conventional personal biography to tell. What stands out is the purpose behind the work: to provide military readers with prayers, hymns, Bible readings, and simple forms of worship they could use in the uncertainty of wartime.
The result is less a literary self-portrait than a window into the church's pastoral care for people in uniform. Readers coming to this author name are really meeting an institution speaking in a collective voice—steady, formal, and focused on encouragement, duty, and faith under pressure.