dea of fellowship may come to us in another way. The
special service of the nave is the Litany. This solemn service has
been said from very early times from the Litany-desk, placed {23} at
the head of the nave, before the entrance to the chancel. "Its
position there refers to a Litany, and a place for it to be said, of
God's own appointing. 'Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord,
weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare Thy
people, O Lord.' Our Litany, retaining the same words of supplication,
is said, in allusion to this, in the midst of the church," the priest
taking his place with the people, and, in fellowship of sinfulness and
need, leading their supplications.

This truth of fellowship in Christ which the nave suggests, we confess
our belief in when we say, "I believe in the holy Catholic Church; The
Communion of Saints." The pictures of the saints of the Old and the
New Testament, of the angels who worship Christ our Saviour, and of the
men blessed by Him when on earth, which shine for us in the windows,
may help to give it reality in our thought. The four main walls of the
church, which are supposed to represent the four Evangelists, and the
pillars, "which, as the chief supports of the fabric, are said to
represent the Apostles, prophets, and martyrs," may remind us also of
the holy and glorious fellowship into which we have been brought.

This fellowship in Christ is one of the means which God's love uses for
helping and saving men. {24} We are helped by it. We must by it help
others. Let us build, it, then, into the daily life, as it is built
into the very stones of the church.

_The Transepts._--The transepts are the part of the church which gives
to the building the cruciform shape. Crossing the nave before the
entrance to the chancel, running the one to the north, the other to the
south, they complete the outline of the cross. Upon the arms of such a
cross our Saviour hung as He died for us.

The transepts may bring us, then, as we remember this, the thought of
_sacrifice_, that our lives to be truly Christian must have the spirit
of the Cross worked into them. It was by offering Himself in sacrifice
that Christ redeemed us, and it is by offering ourselves to Him in
sacrifice, by self-denial for His cause, and by doing good (at some
cost to ourselves) to others for His sake, that we make the response He
asks to His love. That offering of ourselves must be made not