Excerpt from The Treatment of the Remains at the Eucharist After Holy Communion and the Time of the Ablutions The suggestion that it might be useful if he were to compile such a work as this came to the writer from a friend, and, it may be well to explain, his own inclinations would have led him rather to other fields of research. Whatever its value the book is the result of an attempt to carry out two requests. The first was that the question of the proper time for the consumption of the remains at the eucharist, and any ablutions in connection with the English rite, should be investigated from a historical point of view. The original essay dealing with the matter appeared in the Church Quarterly Review for April, 1917. On its publication there was a further request from various quarters that the material collected with any suitable additions should be preserved in a more permanent and accessible form. The present book in which the earlier essay is very much enlarged and modified is the response to this second request. In the course of the investigation it was found impossible to treat the original question at all adequately by itself, and a number of kindred subjects had almost of necessity to be examined and discussed at the same time; but still the work is not intended to be a treatise on reservation, and so there is no discussion of many questions, such as the incident of Gorgonia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.