68 PIONEERS OF EVOLUTION. 



and shall deny that wonderful and singular conversion 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 conversion the Catholic Church 

 most fittingly calls Transubstantiation — 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 is rector, and in which 

 the distinguished statesman himself often reads the 

 lessons: 



" A few Sundays ago — 8 o'clock celebration of Holy Com- 

 munion. Rector, officiating minister (Hawarden Church). 



" When the point was reached for the communicants to 

 partake, cards containing a hymn to be sung after Communion 

 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 commu- 

 nicated should sing ' with ' instead of ' t'ft,' i.e. those who had 

 taken the consecrated elements to sing ' Thou art /k us now,' 

 and those who had not, to sing ' Thou art witA us now.' " 



Whether, therefore, the cult be barbaric or civi- 

 lized, 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 



