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or to add what further parallels are suggested in the 

 belief that Dionysus was slain, rose again, and 

 descended into Hades to bring up his mother Semele 

 from the dead. This, however, by the way. What 

 has to be emphasised is, that in the quotation just 

 given we have transubstantiation clearly anticipated 

 as the barbaric idea of eating the god. In proof 

 of the underlying continuity of that idea two 

 witnesses Catholic and Protestant may be cited. 



The Church of Rome, and in this the Greek 

 Church is at one therewith, thus defines the term 

 transubstantiation in the Canon of the Council of 

 Trent : 



If any one shall say that in the most holy sacrament 

 of the Eucharist there remains the substance of bread and 

 wine together with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus 

 Christ, and shall deny that wonderful and singular conver- 

 sion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, 

 and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood, the 

 species of bread and wine alone remaining which conver- 

 sion the Catholic Church most fittingly calls Transub- 

 stantiation let him be anathema. 



The Church of England, through the medium of 

 a letter to a well-known newspaper, the British 

 Weekly (29th August 1895), supplies the following 

 illustration of the position of its ' High ' section, and 

 this, it is interesting to note, from the church of 

 which Mr. Gladstone's son was rector, and in which 

 the distinguished statesman himself often read the 

 lessons : 



A few Sundays ago 8 o'clock celebration of Holy 

 Communion. Rector, officiating minister (Hawarden 

 Church). 



