It was opfortunate that the weather should have bren se bad on Monday night. For the result was audience than the Rev. A. J. Walker's extremelyinterestinglectoredeserved. Throughout the subject-matter was admirably thought out and delivered; and the illustrations by the Cathedral Choir, under the superintendence of Mr. R. B. Hurry, were excellent, For the purpose of his lecture Mr. Walker confined himself entirely to the English Communion Office. He began by recounting the development of that Office as we have it to-day, showing what traces of the Service are foond in the New Testament, From this he passed to an enumeration of the references to the practice of the first second centuries that are found in the writings of the Fathers, ar ing finally at the litorzy of Chrysostom, which is the first ample Vitargy known. From this point the lecturer could move directly to the records of Britich use, shown by the arrival of St. Augustine in England. Prior to that date, there are records of what in known ax the Gallican liturgy, which St. Angostine certainly had found la ase passage through Gaul. But oe Epgland he found there British Use as distinct service. St. Avgastine wrote to Pope: Gregory to consult him as to what steps he should take towards this established liturgy, and it is worthy noting that the Pope, io answer, recommended him to adopt the best thing that was io existence and not to go tablished custom.
At this point the lecturer called special attention to the very interesting comparative table of the Commanion Offices which was provided on the second sheet of the ss0- apsis distributed among the audience That table shows the arrangement of the Office according to the old Sarom Use, the Prayer Book of 1549, the present English Prayer Book and the precent American Prayer Book. The importance of the table consists, Mr. Walker pointed oat, i idence that the English Cummunion Office
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