Yes, my friends, on that holy table stands the everlasting sign that
Isaiah's prophecy has been fulfilled to the uttermost. That bread
and that wine declare to us, that to us a Child is born, to us a Son
is given. They declare to us, in a word, that on this blessed day
God was made man, and dwelt among men, and we beheld His glory, the
glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Oh, come to that table this day, and there claim your share in the
most precious body and blood of the Divine Child of Bethlehem. Come
and ask Him to pour out on you His Spirit, the Spirit which He poured
on Hezekiah of old, "that he might fulfil his own name and live in
the might of God." So will you live in the might of God. So you
will be able to govern yourselves, and your own appetites, in
righteousness and freedom, and rule your own households, or
whatsoever God has set you to do, in judgment. So you will see
things in their true light, as God sees them, and be ready and
willing to hear good advice, and understand your way in this life,
and be able to speak your hearts out in prayer to God, as to a loving
and merciful Father. And in all your afflictions, let them be what
they will, you will have a comfort, and a sure hope, and a wellspring
of peace, and a hiding-place from the tempest, even The Man Christ
Jesus, who said: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you;
let not your heart be troubled, neither be ye afraid.
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