"Then said JESUS unto the twelve, WILL YE ALSO GO AWAY? "Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. "And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God." St. John vii. 67-69. THE HOLY COMMUNION. My object is to call your attention to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, which Jesus Christ Himself instituted in memory of His sufferings on the cross, and as a means to us of spiritual strength and refreshment. Seeing so many refuse to partake of it, it is the duty of a Christian minister earnestly to entreat those who have thus acted to consider their obligation to obey the Lord's last command, and the dangerous consequences of disobedience. The institution is recorded in nearly the same terms by three of the Evangelists :-St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. Luke, who also refers to it in the Acts of the Apostles. |