purpose. It was
supplementary, and supplied a defect which the Sacrifice on the Cross
failed to supply!

{88} What has been said on the subject of "The Sacrifices of Masses" for
souls in Purgatory must not be understood as implying that the Sacrifice
in the Holy Communion has no efficacy, when pleaded in behalf of the
souls in the Intermediate State. To use the words of Bishop Forbes, "The
application of the Blessed Eucharist to the departed must in our Church
stand and fall with the practice of prayers for the dead. In its aspect
of the great oblation, the Holy Communion may be considered as prayer in
its most intense and highest form. If it is unlawful to pray for the
faithful departed, it must be unlawful to remember them in the sacred
mysteries; but, if the first be permitted, the second must be so
likewise." (Article XXXI., p. 63.) The subject of Prayers for the Dead
is dealt with in the next Address, page 101 _sq._

{92} Psalm xxvii. 1.

{96} A friend has suggested that Moses and the prophets may, one after
the other, have reported to Abraham the occurrences on earth in which
they had severally themselves taken part, and that, therefore, we have in
this narrative no more than an illustration of the mutual intercourse
which exists in the Intermediate Life. To this it may be replied that
this suggestion, so far from discrediting, really confirms the argument
in the sermon. The suggestion is an attempt to explain the mode by which
knowledge of what passes here is attained, which is certainly no disproof
of the existence of such knowledge. But it is safer to say that, some
how or other, the denizens of the Intermediate State do probably know, as
Abraham certainly knew, occurrences on earth.

{98} Both these illustrations are, I find, referred to by Canon McColl
in his "Life Here and Hereafter," pp. 105, 106. But may I presume to
question the value of his illustration of our Lord's knowledge of what
was said, in His absence, on the way to Emmaus, and by S. Thomas? Our
Lord's knowledge after His Resurrection, and indeed at any time, is
scarcely on a level with the knowledge possessed by souls in the
Intermediate State of what passes on earth.

{99} There is so much doubt as to the bearing upon this point of the
words in Hebrews xii. 1, that I have not referred to it. Yet I would
suggest that the comparison of our life on earth to the endeavours of the
runners in the games of the amphitheatre impli