There are, however, in England some interesting instances of permanent “tombs” being erected to serve as the Easter Sepulchre. Some people in their wills left money to have a structure for the “altar of repose,” worthy of its purpose, built over the spot on which they themselves desired to be buried. After the morning service of Maundy Thursday, the high altar, and then all the altars in the church, were stripped of their ornaments and cloths and were left bare, in memory of the way our Blessed Lord was stripped of His garments before His crucifixion. In the evening of the same day all the altars were washed with wine and blessed water, the minister saying at each the prayer of the Saint to whom the altar was dedicated; then he and all the clerks, having devoutly kissed the stone slab, retired in silence. GOOD FRIDAY.--The chief feature in the morning service of Good Friday was undoubtedly the “adoration of the Cross” and the ceremonial kissing of it, better known in England as the “Creeping to the Cross.” The meaning of this act of worship is set out in _Dives and Pauper_ so clearly that there can be no doubt as to what our forefathers intended by it. “_Pauper._--In the same manner lewd men should do their worship before the thing, making his prayer before the thing and not to the thing. “_Dives._--On the other hand, on Good Friday above all in holy Church men creep to the church and worship the cross. “_Pauper._--That is so, but not as thou meanest: the cross that we creep to and worship so highly that time is Christ himself that died on the cross that day for our sins and our sake. For the shape of man is a cross, and as He hung upon the rood He was a very cross. He is that cross, as all doctors say, to whom we pray and say, _Ave crux, spes unica_--‘Hail be thou Cross, our only hope,’ etc. And as Bede saith; for as much as Christ was most despised of mankind on Good Fryday, therefore Holy Church hath ordeyned that on the Good Fryday men should do Him that great high worship that day, not to the crosse that the priest holdeth in his hand, but to Hym that died for us all that day upon the crosse.” Archbishop Simon Mepham (1327-1333) issued a special Constitution as to the way in which this solemn day was to be kept throughout England. “We order and ordain,” he says, “that this holy day of Good Friday, on which our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ after many stripes laid down His precious life on the Cross for the salvation of men, according to the custom of the Church should be passed in reading, silence, prayer and fasting with tearful sorrow.”