[To THE ED1701 or THE " Sereraroa."1
Sta,—I am sorry if my letter was no wanting in lucidity as to let Mr. Quick suppose that "' Mcraiestrat seems to rest his criticism of the Church on rho contention that the pledge of life in the Eucharist is to be found not at all in the duo performance of the outward sign to which the promise is attached, but merely in the consciousness of life which the performance produces." For re- assurance I would ask him to lock again at my sentence, "Of this life [the spiritual life, which I define as an interconscious- nese of Christ, the Church, and the soul] the greatest instrument is the Sacrament of the Supper "; or again at the words, "If the Eucharist works its glace on Church and member through a triune Intercousciousness of these and Christ...," where ths sentence shows that I assert that the Eucharist does work this grace. I will ask your correspondent to believe that I am as Duly sacramentalist as himself, though, as the signature ("One who stands between two oplmsing fronts") was meant to indieate. I em on the side neither of those who over-exalt nor of those whit disparage the value of the outward sign. I °cent to myself to be in rank with the Catechiem, holding the Sacrament to be neither "sign." nor "grace," but bulh in one—I ant. Sir, de..
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