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When the point was reached for the communicants to 

 partake, cards containing a hymn to be sung after Com- 

 munion were distributed among the congregation. This 

 hymn opened with the following couplet : 



' Jesu, mighty Saviour, 

 Thou art in us now.' 



And my attention was arrested by an asterisk referring to 

 a footnote. The word * in,' in the second line, was printed 

 in italics, and the note intimated that those who had not 

 communicated should sing 'with* instead of '/,' i.e. 

 those who had taken the consecrated elements to sing 

 'Thou art in us now,' and those who had not, to sing 

 * Thou art with us now.' 



Whether the cult be barbaric or civilised ; lineal 

 or lateral in transmission, we find theory and practice 

 identical. The god is eaten so that the communicant 

 thereby becomes a ' partaker of the divine nature/ 



In the gestures denoting sacerdotal benediction we 

 have probably an old form of averting the evil eye ; 

 in the breathing on a bishop at the service of 

 consecration there was the survival of belief in 

 transference of spiritual qualities, the soul being, 

 as language evidences, well-nigh universally identu 

 fied with breath. The modern spiritualist who de- 

 scribes apparitions as having the * consistency of 

 cigar-smoke/ is one with the Congo negroes who 

 leave the house of the dead unswept for a time lest 

 the dust should injure the delicate substance of the 

 ghost. The inhaling of the last breath of. the 

 dying Roman by his nearest kinsman has parallel in 

 the breathing of the risen Jesus on his disciples that 

 they might receive the Holy Ghost (xx. John 22). 

 In the offering of prayers for the dead; in the canonisa- 



