The Bishops who visit our parishes year by year come
with the same office and authority as Peter and John,
when they made the first Episcopal visitation of Sa-
maria. If you believe in God ; if you desire grace and



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help and strength — come in faith, and as the good
Bishop , after the example of his predecessors, the Holy
Apostles, lays his hands on your head and blesses you in
God's name, you will be blessed indeed.
In Confirmation, then, as in the Sacrament of Re-
generation, the Catholic Faith, and Holy Orders, the
Anglican Church has continued steadfastly; and it is
permitted us to see another golden strand in the cord
which binds our Church to the Catholic Church of the
Apostles, the Church which Christ founded on the
Rock."



^^ See the great standard works on Confirmation by Bishop Hall,
Dr. Wirgman, Canon Mason, and Dean Bobbins (in N. Y. Ch. Club
Lectures, 1892). See also Bp. Anderson's tract; and one by the
author, for wide distribution.
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CHAPTER XXL

THE ANGLICAN CHUBCH AND THE BBEAKING OF THE

BBEAD.
"The Eucharist is not only a Sacrament, in which, under the sym-
bols of bread and wine according to the institution of Christ, the
faithful truly and spiritually receive the Body and Blood of Christ,
but also a true and proper Sacrifice, commemorative of the original

Sacrifice and death of Christ As a priest, Christ offered

Himself a Sacrifice to God in the mystery of the Eucharist, that is,
under the symbols of bread and wine, and He commanded His Apostles
to do as He had done. If His offering was a Sacrifice, theirs was also.
