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e s c / j a - HE LORD ’ S SUPPER IS A MEMORIAL . OF THE DEATH OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. , Like the Passover, it teaches: First, salva tion is from death. As there hung over Egypt on the dark night the awful threat of impending doom, so there hangs over a lost world the sentence of eternal death. “ The wages of sin is death.” Let us not forget that note in our teach ing. Salvation is from eternal death. “ Men do not preach these days like Jonathan Edwards,” said one recently. That is true, neither do sinners tremble as they did under the
“Just as I am, and waiting not To rid my soul of one dark blot; To thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come, I come.”
T HE LORD ’ S SUPPER IS A PROPHECY OF THE COMING BACK OF OUR SAVIOUR, “ till He come.” Jesus Christ is coming back in bodily form to this earth. When He parted with His disciples, two mes sengers stood by and said,-“ Why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same'Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him ! g0 jnt0 heaven.” No Christian has a right to ig
teaching of that faithful man of God. Men will never come to a proper estimate of the work of Jesus Christ until they see the heinousness of sin and its terrible consequences. Second, salvation is by substi tution. I can imagine an Israelite father boasting that he would not apply the blood to the lintel and the two sideposts of his home. He would say, “ I shall tell the de stroying angel when he comes here how good I am. I’ll show him my record of honesty. I ’ll show him my record as a good husband, and a good father.” But the destroy ing angel on that dark night in Egypt was not looking for honest men, good husbands or good fa thers; he was looking for blood. “What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood o f Jesus.”
nore the Blessed Hope of the Church of Jesus Christ. When we partake of the Lord’s Supper, w.e look two ways. We look behind us to the Cross, and we look before us to the Glory. HE LORD ’S SUPPER IS A PRESENT MEANS OF GRACE. What is the value of re membering the Edeath of Jesus Christ on the Cross?. First, it in creases love for Him. Love is the greatest constraining force in the world. “ We love him, because he first loved us.” The Lord’s Sup per calls on us to think of this love. Second, it creates a hatred of sin. “ The Lord made to meet upon him”—my sin. Sinai never made me hate sin. It made me tremble, it made me afraid to sin, but Calvary makes me hate sin. T
Another Year is Dawning Another year is 'dawning! ' Dear'Master,"let it be, In working or in waiting— Another year with Thee. Another year in leaning Upon Thy loving breast, O f ever-deepening trustfulness, O f quiet, happy rest. Another, year o f mercies, . O f faithfulness and grace, Another year o f gladness, In. the shining of Thy face. Another year o f progress, . Another year o f praise, Another year o f proving Thy presence all the days.
■—Frances Ridley Havergal.
“ Not by works of righteousness which we have done.” I ’m not much concerned about a man’s theory of the atonement, if he believes with all his heart that Jesus Christ died on the Cross for his sin. He suffered the penalty. “He paid the debt that made me free.” “ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Third, salvation is by the obedience of faith. All that Israel was required to do. on Passover night was to believe the Word of God, and act upon that belief. “ And none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.” Their safety was in believing God. It was not in what they were, but where they were. Happy the man who can say: “Just as I am without one plea,
Third, it gives confidence that all needs áre supplied. “ He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things ?” “ But my God shall supply all your need accord ing to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Fourth, it opens up a place o f prayer and worship. The Lord’s Supper reminds me, in the busy rush of these days, that there is a mercy-seat: At the death of Christ, the veil of the temple was rent from the top to the bottom. It was not thrown back,by the hand of man, but by the hand of Almighty God. We have access to God through Jesus Christ the righteous. “Five bleeding wounds He bears, Received on Calvary’s Tree; They pour effectual prayers, They strongly plead for me.” With what confidence may we draw nigh to God! Fifth, the Lord’s Supper reminds me that I must for give my brother. With the exception of the sin of com-
But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bidst me come to Thee; O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
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