can adhere to this Jesus, and do that which Jesus has commanded to be done in remembrance of him.

Where could there have been a Christian church without this sacrament? And it is not to be confined to those first disciples of Jesus, nor to those earlier Christian churches. To all Christians, in all the world, at all times should the Lord's Supper be a compensation for the loss of his personal presence. To all should it sensibly represent his love and his death-the blessings of his love, and the fruits of his death for as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death 'till he come. Do you hear? "Till he shall come again hereafter, so long will this feast be, and remain, an evidence and memorial that he once lived, and suffered, and died, on earth. From his death even to the end of days, will that love by which he died be testified and proclaimed by this feast. O dear, worthy, precious word for us, and for all, who live by faith, and not by sight; for all of us whose eyes saw him not in his grace and love, whose ear heard no word of life from his

mouth, who were not witnesses of any proof of his love. O, happy are we, if we have not seen him, and yet have loved; if we believe in him, though we see him not! Yes; so commonly as bread and wine are known as means of nourishment, and strengthening, so commonly will his sacrifice of love be proclaimed as means of nourishing and strengthening, or enlivening and quickening. So too, will that be proclaimed and sealed by the sacrament, which he so commonly said: I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. So too, in this last supper before his death, speaks the voice which cried in the last day, that great day of the feast. If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth in me, as the Scripture hath said, out

of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. So, also, resounds from this sacrament the call of love: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. So likewise his supper makes intelligible and certain to us that word of his mouth: If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. So, too, is his supper, 'yea and amen' to the promise: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled! and it is a seal to the assurance: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Yes; Christian friend, only come with the right mind and heart to him, to your Lord, in this supper; draw very near to him at his table; place yourself very close to him, and get still closer, then is he also come near to you; then is he as near to you as he was to his disciples on that evening, though your eye may not see him; then he says to you by the bread and by the cup, the same as he there said, though your ear may not perceive the

voice of his mouth. Yes; in faith and by faith, you have him who gave himself for you. His Spirit is in you; you are his. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. So he says himself. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? So says one of his ambassadors. Yes; his death is yours, as well as his life. He has died for you, though you were not born till above eighteen centuries after his death; and he lives for you though you see and hear nothing of him; and he will hereafter come again to your joy and blessedness, though he will so long delay the fulfilment of his promise. Of this his supper is to you a sign and seal, a witness and pledge. And so have all been further witnesses of him, who have received his gospel, from his ascension, through all centuries, even to this day; and thus it has been a means of strengthening and comforting thousands of his worshippers scattered over the earth; and thus it will continue to be observed till he come again, however the

world may change; and though there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? Still Jesus testifies by the supper to all his worshippers in every age: Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world!

After such instruction upon the holy supper, does any one inquire how and why the Christians in the Corinthian church, in their assemblies ate unworthily of the bread, and drank unworthily from the cup of the Lord? They ate and drank unworthily, because they ate and drank without thought and veneration for Jesus, without reflection and interest in the heart, thankless and unfeeling, indifferent and inattentive, with fleshly minds and impure, perverted hearts, with neglect and contempt toward their Christian brothers and sisters. They ate and drank unworthily, because each thought only of himself, and cared not for others; just as people in our times also do, who are accustomed to say, 'Each one for himself, and God for us all.' They thought not