I do not imagine that many Deans and Canons do me the honour of reading this column, but it ís none the less a pleasure to see that the House of Convocation of Canterbury wishes to revise the Church Lectionary about which I was writing recently, Canon Anthony Deane of Windsor said that 16 years' use of the present Lectionary had revealed a number of blemishes which ought to be corrected, much that was read in church on Sunday was unsuitable, and many noble passages were never read at all. The Dean of Winchester said that some of the now appointed lessons were "dull, unintelligible and in certain cases disastrous." And the Rev. M. O. Hodson of Chelmsford seid that "the clergy were often called upon to read verses which they could not
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.