point out that the same explanation applies to the rites attaching to Demeter, 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 emphasized 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 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 Communion. 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_ communicated should sing '_with_' instead of '_in_,' 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, therefore, the cult be barbaric or civilized, we find theory and practice identical. The god is eaten so that the communicant thereby becomes a "partaker of the divine nature."