156 The Fundamentals A comical side of this presents itself to us in the claim that the prophet Elijah was Christian Science; so were the river Euphrates, and the river Hiddekel, and the New Jerusa lem! (See Glossary.) “ the lord ’ s supper ” As related to this whole subject of sin and atonement treated in this sacrilegious manner, we should consider for a moment her parody of the Lord’s supper. She tells us that the passover which Jesus ate with His disciples the night before His death “was a mournful occasion, a sad supper” ; and that it “closed forever Jesus’ ritualism, or concessions to matter.” What a contrast between our Lord’s last supper and His last spiritual breakfast with His disciples in the bright morning hours, at the joyful meeting on the shore of the Galilean Sea! “This spiritual meeting with our Lord in the dawn of a new light, is the morning meal which Christian Scientists commemorate” (pp. 32-35, “Science and Health” ). “Thus does Eddyism heap its insults upon the sacrament itself—the very heart and citadel of Christian worship. Jesus says, ‘This do in remembrance of Me.’ And Mrs. Eddy and her easy victims immediately set about doing something else. They must not even think of blood or pain or death, for these all are illusions of mortal mind. They will have nothing to do with the Lord’s supper, because it is ‘a mournful occa sion.’ And they must always be comfortable, able to forget sin and its consequences! ‘The less said of them, the better.’ That is her desperate advice. ‘I lay down My life for the sheep,’ said Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It was a mistake to dwell upon that. The agony in the Garden, the scourging, the torture of the crucifixion, all were errors of sinful sense!” So it is better, Eddyism thinks, to forget this “sad sup per, taken at the close of day . . . with shadows falling around” (p. 32, “Science and Health”), and have a “last spir-
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