Hove, England, Nov. 21.—(AP)—An appeal to women to "renounce" the lipstick before partaking of the communion has been issued by the vicar of Hove, Canon F. J. Myrick. He said:

"The stains on a teacup are unpleasant, but a teacup for the time being is your own. The chalice is not your own. It is the cup of fellowship; to be shared by all."

NOTE.—What about those who do not keep their lips clean? E. g., some men leave tobacco stains on the edge of the cup. The same is true of some women who "dip" snuff. Things have come to a pretty (?) pass when professed Christians cannot (will not) refrain from the use of tobacco on the Lord’s day until after "the Apostles’ teaching, and the contribution, and the breaking of the loaf (which implies partaking of the cup also), and the prayers" have been "attended to" (Acts 2:42, Emphatic Diag1ott).

When some Catholics began to "feel a disgust at all partaking from one chalice," they issued a decree requiring the priest to drink all the wine and thus denied the cup to the laity. This was about the 11th century. Many of our brethren, for the same reason, introduced "the individual cups" by which they destroyed the communion. The Episcopal church, respecting the voice of Scripture, makes "an appeal to women to ‘renounce’ the lipstick before partaking of the communion." This should apply with equal force to the users of tobacco and snuff (whether by men or women) and all other filthy habits. Some go to worship with particles of food from their breakfast meal clinging to their lips. Let us clean up, brethren!