THE POSITION OF THE HOLY TABLE. A CORRECTION.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—As Mr. Sturge seems to have missed the point of my comment on the position of the holy table, will you permit me to say that while, of course, admitting that the table stands rightly in the chancel when that is the place appointed for the saying of Morning and Evening Prayer, I submit that when the services are held in "the body of the church," as the "accustomed place," the rubrics then direct that the table shall be placed in the said body of the church ? The eighty- second Canon, to which Mr. Sturge refers me, contains the following apposite instruction,—viz., "at which time the same [the table] shall be placed in so good sort within the church or chancel as thereby the minister may be more conveniently heard by the communicants."—I am, Sir, &c.,
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