But these were not the only changes made in the Communion Service of 1552. There was another of a most important character in connexion with the subject of sacrifice. You never hear of sacrifice without an altar. The altar is, in fact, an essential adjunct of sacrifice, and accordingly in former times there was an altar, generally made of stone, against the eastern wall of the chancel. Accordingly in the Communion Service of 1549, there is frequent mention of the altar; but in 1552 all altars were abolished. There is no allusion to an altar now in any document of the Church of England. When persons speak of leading brides to the altar, they are not using the language of the Church, nor are they presenting the holy rite of marriage in a very happy aspect, for the expression really implies that the poor bride is led to sacrifice. There is now nothing but a table known in the Church of England. The altar has been removed, and the table introduced, in order that all might see even in the Church’s furniture, that the doctrine of sacrifice has been abandoned, and that the doctrine of communion is the true creed of the Church of England. It may be sufficient to refer to the fourth rubric as a specimen of the changes made. In 1549 it was, ‘The priest standing humbly afore the midst of the altar shall say,’ &c. In 1552, ‘The table having at the Communion time a fair white linen cloth upon it, shall stand in the body of the church or in the chancel, where Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer be appointed to be said. And the priest standing at the north side of the table shall say,’ &c.