our Lord and His apostles observed it. In the absence of any explanation to the contrary, we are bound to believe that it was the same—a symbolic religious ordinance expressive of the power of the Holy Spirit, whose peculiar emblem is oil. The Greek Orthodox church still retains the ordinance, but the Roman Catholic church has changed it into a mournful preparation for death. It is a beautiful symbol of the divine Spirit of life taking possession of the human body and breathing into it God’s vital