10 APRIL 1915, Page 16

THE PUNCTUATION OF THE LORD ' S PRAYER.

[To ran EDITOR OF ran “Srsc-rArox."] suggest that the reason for placing the comma after the word "done," in the Lord's Prayer, is that (in the words of the Bishop of Oxford) the phrase "as in heaven, so on earth" applies in all probability not only to the clause after which it occurs about the Divine will, but also to the two earlier clauses—" Hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come." Your correspondents have not recalled the case of Canon Fleming's nervous curate, who announced: "A sailor, going to see his wife, requests prayers for his safety." Your readers will correct for themselves the stopping and the