If you would suffer the Law to be your schoolmaster, instead of these Liturgies, you would scarcely be able so much as to imagine that the “signs” of the Holy Communion could, under any circumstances, “be effective for sinners’ pardon through Christ’s body broken and his blood shed” (p. 104). For you would never bring yourself to understand how an unbloody could effect any part of the work of a bloody sacrifice, in a matter of propitiation. What a sacrificial solecism is it to speak, as you do (p. 131), of “an unbloody . . . propitiatory sacrifice”! Without shedding of blood is no remission of sins. “All that true and holy thing which the Church has ever had, as Christ’s own appointed means for the pardon of our sins,” is not, as you surmise (p. 131), the Eucharistic sacrifice, but faith in the blood of Jesus. The Church has never had anything else. Hers the faith; His the blood. “Lord, save me,” she prays; “thy faith hath saved thee,” He replies, from age to age. And her “pure offering,” which you correctly adduce from Malachi (i. 11), as referable to the Eucharist, is but a _mincha_, a bloodless meat-offering; fruit, of no use for pardon or propitiation. Your reference (p. 150) to “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Rev. xiii. 8), might suggest, though it does not establish, your idea that the one offering of Himself is, in some sense, continuous (p. 56) to the present day. But I know not why the framers of our Authorized Version did not render this passage as they rendered the same phrase when they came upon it again, four chapters further on (Rev. xvii. 8); “whose names were not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.” However translated, the passage must be expounded in accordance with S. Paul (Heb. ix. 26, 28), “Christ was once offered, in the end of the world.” * * * * * II. And so vanishes the Sacrifice from our altars, all but the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to the name of the Lord. But have we any Altars? One of your three arguments in the affirmative, taken from Scripture, is that our Lord would not have said, “Leave there thy gift before the altar,” unless we all had altars (p. 48). Nor in the same strain, could you forbear to add, would He have said, “Cast not your pearls before swine,” unless we all had pearls. But to proceed to your more serious proofs.