The Lord's Supper
is the pledge and token to us that we all have a share in the
likeness of Christ, the true pattern of man; and that if we come and
claim our share, He will surely bestow it on us. He will renew, and
change, and purify our hearts and characters in us, day by day, into
the likeness of Himself. He who is the eternal life of men will
nourish us, body, soul, and spirit, with that everlasting life of
His, even as our bodies are nourished by that bread and wine. And if
you ask me how? When you can tell me why a wheat grain cannot
produce an oak, or an acorn a wheat plant; when you can tell me why
our bodies are, each of them, the very same bodies which they were
ten years ago, though every atom of flesh, and blood, and bone in
them has been changed; when, in short, you, or any other living man,
can tell me the meaning of those three words, body, life, and growth,
then it will be time to ask that question. In the meantime let us
believe that He who does such wonders in the life and growth of every
blade of grass, can and will do far greater wonders for the life and
growth of us, immortal beings, made in His own likeness, redeemed by
His blood, and so believe, and thank, and obey, and wait till another
and a nobler life to understand.
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