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Sir, —Tin- correct arrangement of pulpit and communion table seems to be that both should be in the centre of the church, the pulpit behind, and slightly higher than the communion table. The reason for this claim is that the, meaning of the sacraments requires the preacher's word to unfold it. Without the pulpit the sacraments degenerate into ceremonial and, perhaps, magic. "The essential thing in the Sacraments is not what we say and do in them, but what God in Christ says and does in them" —and this needs to be clearly set forth by the preacher. In early Methodism the preacher's word was so powerful that tens of thousands were brought to God in Christ. As a result they flocked to the. churches for the communion. Preaching first in order of time and importance: the sacraments follow on. AY. T. Blight.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22619, 6 January 1937, Page 13
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