Edinburgh.
This is the practice on the reading of this prayer in the second lesson at the parish church of Edgbaston, near Birmingham. It is probably a remanet of the ancient practice in the Church, not only to stand up during the reading of the Gospel, but throughout the whole service, as symbolic of the resurrection of Christ—the Lord's Day; which still exists in the Greek Church, and may be witnessed any Sunday in London, on visiting the recent edifice in London Wall.
T. J. Buckton.
Birmingham.
The custom is observed in St. Thomas' Church.
W. Hazel.
Portsmouth.
At Exeter Cathedral the people kneel whenever the Lord's Prayer is read in the lesson.
J. W. Hewett.
Tolling the Bell on leaving Church (Vol. ix., pp. 125. 311, 312.).—In this parish a bell is always rung on the conclusion of the morning service, to give notice that a sermon will be given at the evening service. This bell, which a very respectable old man, who was parish clerk here for fifty-four years, called the "sermon bell," is never tolled unless there is a second service. If at any time the morning service is not performed, the bell is tolled at twelve o'clock at noon to inform the parishioners that an evening service will take place. A bell is also rung at eight and nine o'clock on Sunday, or any other morning when morning prayer is said.