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Flowers and Festivals 



that absurdities in style of decoration or ornament, 

 either floral or othersvise, are very rarely met with in 

 the present day ; not that they do not exist still, but 

 that they are less obtrusive. 



The chief object in decorating a Church should be 

 to impress upon the senses of the congregation the 

 teaching, of the Church at that particular season for 

 which the building is decorated. This is best done by 

 a judicious choice of those symbols which are most 

 appropriate for that purpose, and a display of texts of 

 Scripture, which may be selected from the Epistles or 

 Gospels for the day, in various parts of the Church — so 

 that the wandering eye, following the wandering mind, 

 may meet on all sides those symbols and holy words, 

 which may serve to fix the attention, and recall the 

 wandering thought. 



In commencing the work, the following hints may 

 be useful 



I St. Obtain the consent of the Churchwardens to 



decorate the Church ^ 

 ^ As the law stands, the Churchwardens only have power to 



