A sacrament is made up of the outer and inner, and you cannot do without either.

The outer thing is correlated to the inner, and is a real means of coming into touch with the higher, and is not only a symbol, as some imagine.

The great churches and religions of the past always cling to that reality of the sacrament, and they do well.

It is only in very modern times, and among a comparatively small number of Christian people, that the sacrament has become only a symbol, instead of a channel of living and divine power.

And much is lost to the man who loses out of his religion the essential idea of the sacrament; for it is the link between the spiritual and the physical, the channel whereby the spiritual pours down into the physical vehicle.