Excerpt from Non-Communicating Attendance in the Light of History: A Liturgical and Historical StudyThe note on the previous page is my warrant for publishing these papers in this shape. They were begun as a magazine article, but the work grew on my hands till it took the present form. The first part was writ ten early last summer, and the whole would have been finished and published some months ago had it not been for my increased labors as Secretary of the Diocese of New York. It only remains for me to express my great obligations to the Bishops of Connecticut and Albany for their kind criticism and suggestions, and especially to the Bishop of New York, without whose encouragement and active help these papers would never have been written. They make no pretension to literary finish, and they certainly were not written in the spirit of an advocate bound to defend a foregone conclu sion. They are merely a study by one who has tried honestly tofind out the truth, and to tell the result as brie¿y and simply as possible, in the hope that it may be of some little use to others.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.