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To the latter correspondent’s observations, this answer has been
received from the gentleman to whom it became the editor’s duty to
transmit it for consideration.
_For the Every-Day Book._
The object of those who fixed the day for the celebration of Easter, was
to prevent the full moon being on the Sunday on which the offices for
the Resurrection were to be performed, and the custom of _astronomers_
has nothing to do with the question. The full moon according to them
might be on the twenty-third hour of the Saturday, but this would be
eleven o’clock of Saturday, at which time the Romish and English
churches would be performing the offices of the Resurrection; this was
the point to be avoided, and this is done by the ecclesiastical canon
and the act of parliament.