The electronic edition of Robert Richardson's Communings in the Sanctuary has been produced from a copy of the printed text published by Transylvania Printing and Publishing Company (Lexington, KY, 1872). The electronic edition has been produced from text scanned by Colvil Smith and formatted by Ernie Stefanik.

      Pagination in the electronic version has been represented by placing the page number in brackets following the last complete word on the printed page. In the printed text, footnotes are indicated by printer's devices (asterisks, daggers, etc.); in the electronic text, they are treated as sequentially numbered endnotes. Inconsistencies in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and typography have been retained; however, corrections have been offered for misspellings and other accidental corruptions. Emendations are as follows:

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 Chapter III.
 p. 21:     judg ments, [ judgments,

 Chapter VII.
 p. 57:     clod [ cloud

 Chapter XXIV.
 p. 177:    arrrangements, [ arrangements,
 

      Of the twenty-four communion meditations that comprise Communings in the Sanctuary, sixteen were first published in The Millennial Harbinger between 1847 and 1850:

• Chapter I (pp. 9-12), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. I." in MH, Series III., Vol. 4, No. 6, June, 1847, pp. 340-341.
• Chapter II (pp.13-20), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. II." in MH, Series III., Vol. 4, No. 8, August, 1847, pp. 450-453.
• Chapter III (pp. 21-27), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. III." in MH, Series III., Vol. 4, No. 9, September, 1847, pp. 511-514.
• Chapter IV (pp. 28-35), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. IV." in MH, Series III., Vol. 4, No. 12, December, 184 , pp. 679-682.
• Chapter V (pp. 35-42), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. V." in MH, Series III., Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1848, pp. 7-10.
• Chapter VI (pp. 43-53), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. VI." in MH, Series III., Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1848, pp. 193-197.
• Chapter VII (pp. 54-59), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. X." in MH, Series III., Vol. 6, No. 9, September, 1849, pp. 494-496.
• Chapter VIII (pp. 60-65), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. VII." in MH, Series III., Vol. 5, No. 10, October, 1848, pp. 541-543.
• Chapter IX (pp. 66-72), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. XII." in MH, Series III., Vol. 7, No. 2, February, 1850, pp. 61-63.
• Chapter X (pp. 73-77), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. XIII." in MH, Series III., Vol. 7, No. 3, March, 1850, pp. 143-145.
• Chapter XI (pp. 78-83), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. XIV." in MH, Series III., Vol. 7, No. 4, April, 1850, pp. 189-191.
• Chapter XII (pp. 84-89), previously unpublished?
• Chapter XIII (pp. 90-96), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. VIII." in MH, Series III., Vol. 6, No. 1, January, 1849, pp. 49-51.
• Chapter XIV (pp. 97-104), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. IX." in MH, Series III., Vol. 6, No. 4, April, 1849, pp. 202-205.
• Chapter XV (pp. 105-108), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. XI." in MH, Series III., Vol. 6, No. 11, November, 1849, pp. 644-645.
• Chapter XVI (pp. 109-113), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. XV." in MH, Series III., Vol. 7, No. 6, June, 1850, pp. 301-303.
• Chapter XVII (pp. 114-119), published as "Communings in the Sanctuary--No. XVI." in MH, Series III., Vol. 7, No. 11, November, 1850, pp. 601-603.
• Chapter XVIII (pp. 120-126), previously unpublished?
• Chapter XIX (pp. 127-133), previously unpublished?
• Chapter XX (pp. 134-141), previously unpublished?
• Chapter XXI (pp. 142-151), previously unpublished?
• Chapter XXII (pp. 152-158), previously unpublished?
• Chapter XXIII (pp. 159-166), previously unpublished?
• Chapter XXIV (pp. 167-179), previously unpublished?

      Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.

Created 16 June 2000.