For what do we read
that they did after the first Whit-Sunday? That altogether with one
accord, they broke bread daily; that is, partook of the Lord's Supper
every day, from house to house. They did not need to be told to do
it. They did it, as I may say, by instinct. There was no question
or argument about it in their minds. They had found out that they
were all brothers, with one common cause in joy and sorrow--that they
were all members of one body--that the life of their souls came from
one root and spring, from one Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the
light and the life of men, in whom they were all one, members of each
other; and therefore, they delighted in that Lord's Supper, just
because it brought them together; just because it was a sign and a
token to them that they did belong to each other, that they had one
Lord, one faith, one interest, one common cause for this life, and
for all eternity. And therefore the blessing of that Lord's Supper
did come to them, and in it they did receive strength to live like
children of God and members of Christ, and brothers to each other and
to all mankind. They proved by their actions what that Communion
Feast, that Sacrament of Brotherhood, had done for them.
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