sentences:  The evidence of the inventories, directories, &c., is practically the same.Now the instinct which led the church in the great ages of architecture and craftsmanship to use altar lights in this way was a true one; for an altar with two candlesticks upon it is more majestic and more beautiful than an altar with more than two.Furthermore, a row of candles hides the reredos or upper frontal, which ought to be one of the richest and most lovely things in the church.