ording of the Canon this service is not obligatory and adds nothing
to the contract or agreement already made between the Minister and
Vestry. The service, therefore, is not often used, although it would
be desirable that every Pastorate should be thus inaugurated.

Institution, Words of.--The words used by our Blessed Lord when He
instituted the Sacrament of His Body and Blood, and which are
incorporated in the Prayer of Consecration as set forth in the
Communion Service. These words form the essential part of the
Consecration and the rubric directs that they be accompanied by
certain manual acts which are prescribed. (See MANUAL ACTS.) To
effect a valid Sacrament there must be the unfailing use of our
Lord's own words in instituting the Blessed Sacrament, the elements
of bread and wine, and a duly appointed Priesthood.

Instruction.--The name given to a short, practical address, generally
on some usage, feature or doctrine of the Church, as distinguished
from the more formal sermon.

Intercessions of the Litany.--Those petitions in the Litany which
have for their response the words, "We beseech Thee to hear us,
Good Lord," are so called. (See LITANY.)

Intermediate State.--Death is a separation of the soul and body; the
body becoming lifeless and eventually decomposing into dust, the
soul continuing to live as truly as ever. What becomes of the living
soul when thus separated from the body by death? {149}

"Our Lord," says the Rev. J. H. Blunt, "has answered this question
to a certain extent by the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (St.
Luke 16:19-31). By that Parable He has taught us that the living
souls of the departed live in a condition of happiness or misery
suitable to the judgment which the all-seeing eye of God has passed
upon their lives; the good Lazarus at rest in 'Abraham's Bosom,' the
wicked Dives 'in torments.' At the same time our Lord has clearly
revealed by His own words and those of His Apostles that there will
be a general judgment at the last day, when all, good and bad, will
have to stand before the Throne of God, not as bodiless souls, but
with soul and body. And further, the Book of Revelation follows up
the words of Christ and His Apostles with some very distinct
disclosures as to the _increased_ happiness of the good and the
_increased_ misery of the wicked after the final and open award of
the Judge has been given in the general Judgment. The separate
existence of the soul between de