ALTAR LIGHTS, ETC

The following passage from the works of a deeply pious and learned Caroline Divine, which I have never before seen quoted, merits, I think, a place in "NOTES AND QUERIES:"— "As our Lord himself, so his Gospel also, is called Light, and was therefore anciently never read without a burning taper, '*etiam Sole rutilante*' ('tis Saint Hierome's testimony), though it were lighted in the sun.... The careful Church, perceiving that God was so much taken with this outward symbol of the Light, could do no less than go on with the ceremony. Therefore, the day of Our Lord's nativity was to be called επιφ…