[17] The following letter from Mr. Ambrose Lee of the Heralds' College may interest some. "... Surname, in the ordinary sense of the word, the King has none. He--as was his grandmother, Queen Victoria, as well as her husband, Prince Albert--is descended from Witikind, who was the last of a long line of continental Saxon kings or rulers. Witikind was defeated by Charlemagne, became a Christian, and was created Duke of Saxony. He had a second son, who was Count of Wettin, but clear and well-defined and authenticated genealogies do not exist from which may be formulated any theory establishing, by right or custom, _any_ surname, in the ordinary accepted sense of the word, for the various families who are descended in the male line from this Count of Wettin.... And, by-the-by, it must not be forgotten that the earliest Guelphs were merely princes whose baptismal name was Guelph, as the baptismal name of our Hanoverian Kings was George." [18] Rom. viii. 25. [19] Is. lix. 9. {81} CHAPTER VI. THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. The Blessed Sacrament!--or, as the Prayer Book calls it, "The Holy Sacrament". This title seems to sum up all the other titles by which the chief service in the Church is known. These are many. For instance:-- _The Liturgy_, from the Greek _Leitourgia_,[1] a public service. _The Mass_, from the Latin _Missa_, dismissal--the word used in the Latin Liturgy when the people are dismissed,[2] and afterwards applied to the service itself from which they are dismissed. _The Eucharist_, from the Greek _Eucharistia_, thanksgiving--the word used in all the narratives {82} of Institution,[3] and, technically, the third part of the Eucharistic Service. _The Breaking of the Bread_, one of the earliest names for the Sacrament (Acts ii. 42, 1 Cor. x. 16). _The Holy Sacrifice_, which Christ once offered, and is ever offering. _The Lord's Supper_ (1 Cor. xii. 10), a name perhaps originally used for the _Agape_, or love feast, which preceded the Eucharist, and then given to the Eucharist itself. It is an old English name, used in the story of St. Anselm's last days, where it is said: "He passed away as morning was breaking on the Wednesday before _the day of our Lord's Supper_". _The Holy Communion_ (1 Cor. x. 16), in which our baptismal union with Christ is consummated, and which forms a means of union between souls in the Church Triumphant, at Rest, and on Earth. In it, Christ, God and Man, is the bond of oneness. All these, and other aspects of the Sacrament, are comprehended and gathered up in the name which marks its supremacy,--The Blessed Sacrament. {83} Consider: What it is; What it does; How it does it. (I) WHAT IT IS.