. The parson's handbook; containing practical directions both for parsons and others as to the management of the parish church and its services according to the English use as set forth in the Book of common prayers . ksons Cotnpanion to the Altar (lySg), etc. It is quite a mistaketo attribute any doctrinal party sense to the word table. In theearliest York Pontifical we find the words in hac mensa used at thededication of an altar, and the same words occur in the latest versionof the same book. The word also occurs in the canon law of theChurch, ut in ea fit mensa, in qua panis vivus, etc. Su
. The parson's handbook; containing practical directions both for parsons and others as to the management of the parish church and its services according to the English use as set forth in the Book of common prayers . ksons Cotnpanion to the Altar (lySg), etc. It is quite a mistaketo attribute any doctrinal party sense to the word table. In theearliest York Pontifical we find the words in hac mensa used at thededication of an altar, and the same words occur in the latest versionof the same book. The word also occurs in the canon law of theChurch, ut in ea fit mensa, in qua panis vivus, etc. Such phrasesas Godes table, Goddes board, the holie board are common inmedieval writings. (Lay Folks Mass Book, 358-360.) The wordtable is also used by the Eastern Churches, and table as well as altar occurs in the writings of the early Fathers. It is a mistake alsoto think that table is devoid of sacrificial meaning : mensa is usedin classical Latin of a sacrificial altar. The Prayer Book termsHoly Table and Lords Table are reverent paraphrases of themore convenient word altar. 2 The old altar at Arundel is 12^ ft. by 4. For many average-sized churches 9 ft. by 3 is a convenient 7ninitmim. 78 PLATK III. mmmmmmm. Till-: IKI-IAKAIION. THE HOLY TABLE AND ITS FURNITURE 79 the vast majority of churches suffer greatly in thisrespect. As for the material of which the Holy Tableshould be made, it may suffice to state that woodenaltars were sometimes used before the Reformation,while many stone ones were set up in the eighteenthand early part of the nineteenth centuries in thiscountry. Plain stone altars are by far the best. It isconvenient for the top of the altar to project 2 or 3 in.,as this gives more room below for the feet of the and convenience alike demand that altarsshall stand, as in time past, clear of the walls andreredos; and it is most important, both for the propervesting of the altar, and for its cleanliness, that the backof it shall not be covered with g
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