| Show Tilt LUltUM StlTIlt The Christian world since the departure de-parture of tho men endowed with A special divine Inspiration has nlvras found It difficult If not Impossible to arriveat a clear understanding 01 the teachings OC Christ Years of study and patient investigation by men of brilliant learning and with u burning desire for truth have been spent In theN the-N work Every branch of science has been searched for aid but after all opinion are and remain divided on I nearly every doctrinal point and to the layman II often appears an II truth were a phantom without reality or substance 1 sub-stance and that to search for It Is I In I aln I Among the subjects discussed for centuries without any prospect of a dear understanding of ILIa the significance sig-nificance of the Lord supper Theologians Theo-logians have asserted that the emblems v when consecrated change no that the P 4 substance of the glorified Christ 1 body blood soul spirit deity takes the place of the substance of the bread I and wine They have taught that every particle Is I therefore as truly Christ an the glorified person Is I lie ana must be made an object of worship Others have taken an entirely different Iw and se In the Sacrament nothing more than a commmorallon 01 the death of our Savior And between these two extremes there are various modifications The subject has been brought u again recently by Pnf Wings In an article In the Independent Ho takes the view that the Sacrament was not irlmarlly Instituted as a memorial feast but ns n sacrificial meal after the pattern of some Old covenant rites Through rom process of evolution It came to be changed lie argues us follovs The one great thing In the mind of Jesus which 0 He sought to Impress upon up-on Ills discl Pica was that He was now establishing a new covenant by n sac rillc or the nw OOnanl The esn tlal words are This Is I my blood of the covenant which Is I shed for mans Mark xlv 2O Tills I coOnanl Bolcrl lice 18 I In antithesis to the coOnnnt 1111 p sacrifice at Horeb deetlhed In exodus I N xxlv MS The halo nation was taken VW 4 tak-en Into a covenant relation with Hod the blood ot the victims was scattered J i about on the People And their lepre I I sentatIves the sev Onty elders ate and I k drank the sacrlllclal meal In the the J I J ophanlc presence of God This sacri I lice wa once for all II could never be repeated cirellitheitian the presentation of F 4 victims I or In the partaking of the sac ij rlnclal meal Precisely In the amoy am-oy Ibis new sacrifice or te covenant I I 0 was a sacrifice maue once for nil and menalawas I Its sacrificial meal was partaken of bj 11 I f the Apontles the representatives of the I A church far all time anti It could never j bo repeated The blood was given un I der the form of wine In I a cup the I flesh under the form ot a loaf ot bread 11 I It was essential hat tills fundamental I meaning of the Lords Hull S should be Impressed upon the Apostits and me church Too great depei tence upon Pauls statement rather than that of the Gospels has led many Christians 10 bury the essential mean Ing of the Lord Supper under the secondary significance which Is I ne I Dived In the perpetual celebration I P V I t i I The professor believes that the I Christian world Is on the eve of a reconsideration re-consideration of the whole subject and he offers as his contribution to the I discussion the conjectureIn Hat con q fi ii 1111makoV F 6 I Iradlctlon of the statement of Paul that this Apostle had his Information through tradition and through some mistake mixed Into one the teachings ofJesus thatnr really delivered on two occasions widely apart Hitherto the efforts of theologians have liern to find the truth as contained In the scripture the school In which l > r lirlggn belongs seems to endeavor to utahUh a nw principle a baMs for the Invesliga tlon It presupposes that the authors of the Scriptures are misinformed and proceeds to form an opinion not on what those authors say but what they in modern 01 Inlon ought to have Slid Clearly tills I docs not solve the prob Im Ill Is needless to offer nny criticism one on-e theory of Dr llrlgg It suggests tile remark that every renewed effort 01 man to find truth proven the neces ally of the divine guidance that Illuminated Illum-inated the first Church and that again spreads Its rays upon the earth from the candlestick In the Sanctuary Without It there Is absolute darkness When we turn to the revelations given upo the subject both formerly and In our own ago we find the truth emphasized em-phasized that the Sacramental supper sup-per is f In rmmhrance 01 the Lord Ju The bread Is I partaken of that the Saint may remember the body of the Son and ns a witness that the are willing to take upon them Ills name and tn keep his commandments In order to have Ills SpIrit In the fame way the contents oX the cup are In rmem brance of Ills blood that was shed for them And n witness lhat those ulio partake of It remember 111m that they may have life Spirit This at once lifts the sacred ordinance out of the depths of dark mvstery and gives It a practical prac-tical slgnltlcunce ns a divine aid to the eanctlncatlon and final glorification or the rrdeemed |
