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cess. He was also sent by his church to the general assembly 

 of the Presbyterian church in Saratoga to instruct that body 

 about the change and the necessity for making it. There is no 

 doubt that every evangelical church in the land will eventually 

 adopt the method now in vogue in Rochester, Albany, Phila- 

 delphia, Boston, and elsewhere. The new process of adminis- 

 tering wine is demanded by the highest scientific and sanitary 

 reasons. 



After a careful investigation into the dregs of wine left after 

 communion service at several churches in Rochester, a micro- 

 scope revealed twenty-two living microbs, any one of which 

 could have worked incalculable harm in the system of any 

 person who happened to embibe them. No one can tell the 

 number of germs taken by the communicants on the Sunday 

 that the examination was made, nor the results which will fol- 

 low. This uncleanly habit of sipping from the same cup has 

 been in practice for so long that in its career it must have 

 caused the death of thousands. However, the practice of par- 

 taking of the communion in wine is of such ancient origin, and 

 it is so interwoven in the fibre of religion that it is a difficult 

 matter to make the people see the necessity for adopting the 

 new form. The new communion outfit, which was sanctioned 

 by the general assembly of the Presbyterian church contains 

 sixty small silver chalices about twice the size of a thimble 

 placed in a three tier tray in small rungs. The chalices are 

 protected when filled with wine by dust-protecting covers. The 

 length of the tra}^ is twenty-four inches and it is about five 

 inches broad. A narrow handle reaches across the tray, so that 

 the elders distributing the wine may carry it with ease. In 

 giving the wine each communicant takes a cup and after drink- 

 ing the wine leaves the cup in the pew. Enough cups are pro- 

 vided for each church so that every member has one. 



Celloidin Imbedding. — Drop the scraps of tissue that are 

 to be cut with a microtome into a paper box filled with fluid 

 celloidin where they will naturally sink to the bottom. After 

 the celloidin hardens, tear away the paper box and you have a 

 beautiful block of celloidin. Then place it, bottom side up, in 

 the microtome and the second cut will include sections of the 

 imbedded tissues. 



