ist also on Ascension Day, the Epiphany and other Holy days. As to Sunday Communions, make a regular rule and keep it. Either Communicate every Lord's day, as was almost certainly the custom of the Apostolic Church, or choose one or two Sundays in the month as your regular times for Communion, and gradually increase in frequency as you feel able. Let Communicating be a matter of deep principle, not of mere sentiment; and thus with prayer and faith each Communion will bring a fresh blessing and new strength to the soul.

Never let personal feeling as to the church or pastor, keep you back from the plain duty and divine privilege of coming to God's Altar.

III. THE TIME.

From a personal experience of many years, as well as from the very general practice of the Church from Apostolic times, I would advise Commuicating, unless hindered by bodily weakness or other cause, at an early celebration.

This practice, which is now being widely restored in our branch of the Church, has some obvious advantages:

(a) In the quiet morning hour we can come to this holy service undistracted by the talk and work of the day.

(b) The service is shorter and without music, and it saves both Clergy and Communicants the strain and fatigue of a large number of Communions coming after the full morning service and sermon.

(c) The self-denial necessitated by the early rising is a healthy discipline of the body and a test of our earnestness.

(d) It will make it possible for us to adopt the pious custom, which is noticed by some very early writers, and which has always been extensively observed in the Church, viz., that of receiving the Blessed Sacrament fasting, as an act of discipline and self-denial.

A large and increasing number of Church people are learning the help and beauty of: his early Eucharistic service in preference to the later Communion.

IV. BEHAVIOUR IN CHURCH.

Try to be in church a few minutes before the hour of service, kneel down at once and read Psalms 26 or 84. During the Service, and especially during the Prayer of Consecration and the Communion, strive to be collected and

reverent, occupying any spare moments in prayer or reading.

V. THE ACT OF COMMUNION.

As soon as the priest has Communicated and turns to offer Communion, rise quietly and walk up reverently to the Altar-rail, kneel down, upright, as near the next person as you conveniently can, receive the Sacrament in the palm of the right hand, supported by the left, and at once consume it. Receive the chalice firmly in both hands. When the person next you has received in both kinds, return quietly to your place and give thanks for the Blessed Gift. If you have to wait for a place at the Altar-rail, remain standing or else kneel down. Both gloves should first have been removed.

VI. AFTER THE COMMUNION.

Join heartily in the Lord's Prayer and Gloria in Excelsis, kneel at once for the blessing, and remain on your knees to say your thanksgiving.

Unless you have a special reason for haste, do not leave your place until the clergyman has left the Altar and returned to the vestry

room.

VII. AM I FIT TO RECEIVE?

If in serious doubt, come to your parish priest, and as the Prayer Book advises, "open your grief," that is, tell him plainly your spiritual state, just as you would tell the state of your body to a physician, and then be guided by his advice, for he speaks to you as an "ambassador for Christ."

VIII.

ATTENDANCE AT THE EUCHARIST. On any occasion when the Holy Communion is celebrated, we should remain throughout the entire service for prayer and worship, even though we do not wish at that time to Communicate. We must never Communicate more than once on the same day. The only exception to this rule is in the case of a priest, who has to celebrate more than once.

IX. AWAY FROM HOME.

If visiting with friends, or in a strange place, always inquire for a church of our communion and attend it. Loyalty and consistency are always respected, even by those who differ from us, and we may thus help on others, and encourage the clergy and people of another parish.

X. IF THERE IS NO CHURCH.

If you have to live for a time where there is no church of our communion, do not fall away,

or think it necessary to work in with some other religious society. Read the services of the Church from the Prayer Book (except, of course, the Absolution and Holy Communion service), every Sunday at home; get other Church families to join you, practise the hymns and chants, and have a hearty service. Then write to the Bishop or nearest clergyman to appoint a lay-reader, and to send a priest occasionally to administer the Sacraments. You may thus soon have the happiness of seeing a solid Church parish grow up, and a regular pastor appointed. The Churchman's motto should be, "Never despair," for Christ has promised His Holy and Apostolic Church that He will be with her even to the end of the world. If we remain true to God and His Church, He will never leave us or forsake us.

XI. TO MOURNERS.

To all hearts "that are broken with losses and weary with dragging the crosses too heavy for mortals to bear," Jesus says, come unto Me and I will refresh you."

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You cannot come nearer to our Blessed Lord on earth than when you come humbly and devoutly to the Blessed Sacrament, where He is Spiritually, yet most Really Present.