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Updated: May 12, 2025
The strict requirement to report all non-communicants to the official resulted in the keeping of books in which were written the names of the parish communicants. Next in importance to church attendance and the observance of the sacraments came the duty of all parishioners to contribute to the parish expenses.
The awe of it came back on me every month when the fair white linen covered the rustiness of the old velvet altar-cloth which the marsh damps were rotting, and the silver vessels shone, and the village organist played out the non-communicants with a somewhat inappropriate triumphal march, and little Mrs. Rampant knelt on with buried face as we went out, and Mr.
We laughed at these things, but in my serious moments, especially on the first Sunday of the month, I was haunted by something else which Nurse had told me about old Mr. Rampant. In our small parish a dull village on the edge of a marsh the Holy Communion was only celebrated once a month. It was not because he was irreligious that old Mr. Rampant was one of the too numerous non-communicants.
This the church refused, and wrought its factions up to white heat over the baptism of some child or children of non-communicants. The storm broke. Other churches felt its effects. Windsor church was rent by faction, Stratford was in turmoil over the Half-Way Covenant, and other churches were divided. Some means had to be found to put an end to the increasing disorder.
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