These scrolls are swallowed in the body of the machine, and come out into the drawer, thence falling into a chalice held by a Cardinal and Bishop kneeling at the table.
"And the texts are changed into a little Child in the act of blessing while the four Evangelists turn a long silver crank in the right-hand corner of the panel." "What seems strange," remarked the Abbe Gevresin, "is that it should be the formula of Transubstantiation and not the substance that is changed, and that the Evangelists, twice represented--under their animal and their human aspect--pour into the mill and grind.

And also that the sacred oblation should be represented by the living flesh.
"Still, it is correct; since the consecrating words are uttered, the bread has ceased to be.

This scheme of implied meaning, though somewhat strange, in a literal presentment, a scene of actual grinding--the wheat in the grain, in flour, and in the Host--this obvious intention of ignoring the species, the appearances, and substituting the reality which is invisible to sense, must have been adopted by the painter in order to appeal to the masses, to bear witness to the certainty of the Miracle and to make the mystery evident to the people.

But let us return to the construction of our church.

Where were we ?" "Here," said Durtal, pointing with his stick to the side aisles as traced in the sand.