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ELDERS' SEATS

Behind the communion table are eleven built-in elders' seats upholstered in blue. These seats are all on a level, five elders sit on each side of the minister whose seat is immediately behind the table. Here again is symbolized the fact that in our tradition the minister is not a priest, with an ex-officio grace, but a teaching elder. As the Irish Church puts it, he is "chief among his equals."

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