It is the supernatural conjunction of matter and spirit, of Bread and Wine and of the Holy Ghost. Here, as in Baptism, the "inward and spiritual" expresses itself through the "outward and visible". Both must be there. And, notice again. This conjunction is not a _physical_ conjunction, according to physical laws; nor is it a spiritual conjunction, according to spiritual laws; it is a Sacramental conjunction, according to Sacramental laws. As in Baptism, so in the Blessed Sacrament: the "outward and visible" is, and remains, subject to natural laws, and the inward and spiritual to spiritual laws; but the Sacrament itself is under neither natural nor spiritual but Sacramental laws. For a perfect Sacrament requires both matter and spirit.[4] If either is absent, the Sacrament is incomplete. Thus, the Council of Trent's definition of {84} _Transubstantiation_[5] seems, as it stands, to spoil the very nature of a Sacrament. It is the "change of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, of the whole substance of the wine into the blood of Christ, _only the appearance_ of bread and wine remaining". Again, the Lutheran doctrine of Consubstantiation destroys the nature of the Sacrament. The Lutheran _Formula Concordiae_, e.g., teaches that "_outside the use the Body of Christ is not present_". Thus it limits the Presence to the reception, whether by good or bad. The _Figurative_ view of the Blessed Sacrament {85} destroys the nature of a Sacrament, making the matter symbolize something which is not there. It is safer to take the words of consecration as they stand, corresponding as they do so literally with the words of Institution, and simply to say: "This (bread: it is still bread) is My Body" (it is far more than bread); "this (wine: it is still wine) is My Blood" (it is far more than wine). Can we get beyond this, in terms and definitions? Can we say more than that it is a "Sacrament"--The Blessed Sacrament? And after all, do we wish to do so? (II) WHAT IT DOES. Briefly, the Blessed Sacrament does two things; It pleads, and It feeds. It is the pleading _of_ the one Sacrifice; It is the feeding _on_ the one Sacrifice. These two aspects of the one Sacrament are suggested in the two names, _Altar_ and _Table_.[6] Both words are liturgical. In Western Liturgies, _Altar_ is the rule, and _Table_ the exception; in Eastern Liturgies, _Table_ is the rule, and _Altar_ {86} the exception. Both are, perhaps, embodied in the old name, _God's Board_, of Thomas Aquinas. Both contain a truth. _The Altar_.