communion-table

A clergyman, dressed in the Geneva gown and band, stood by the communion-table, and, with the Bible opened before him, and his clerk awaiting in the background, seemed prepared to perform some service of the church to which he belonged.

My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

A clergyman, dressed in the Geneva gown and band, stood by the communion-table, and, with the Bible opened before him, and his clerk awaiting in the background, seemed prepared to perform some service of the church to which he belonged.

My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

From the communion-table Mr Thumble had stated that, in the present peculiar circumstances of the parish, there would be no second service at

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

These, and the strangers, occupied places down the room, to the right and left of the desk and communion-table.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

This mixture of religion and worldly pride seems incongruous at first; but have we not at church at home similar relics of feudal ceremony? — the verger with the silver mace who precedes the vicar to the desk; the two chaplains of my Lord Archbishop, who bow over his Grace as he enters the communion-table gate; even poor

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

I asked him in return, whether from his pulpit, or at any rate from his communion-table, he did not denounce adultery to his audience; and if so, why should it not be open to me to preach the same doctrine to mine.

An Autobiography 2004

There are neither brasses, nor altar-tombs, nor monuments, but there is a mural tablet on the right-hand side of the communion-table, bearing the following inscription: -

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

This scene presented itself almost as a tangible vision to her mind while sitting at the communion-table in the little church in Brunswick.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

Nicol Beg and his relatives are on our kirk rolls as members or adherents, and all we can do is to fence the communion-table against them for a period, and bring them to the stool of repentance.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

So this important functionary was accustomed, from time immemorial, to take his place in the deacons 'seat, below, with the warning of the meeting, the statute-book, and the ballot-boxes arranged before him on the communion-table, which in course of time became so banged and battered, by dint of lusty gavel-strokes, that there was scarcely a place big enough to put one's finger upon which was not bruised and dented.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various