This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...so sickens the heart to hear, as common in the sense of base and wrong. So far therefore, from wishing to seclude the table from public participation and regard, I am free to say, we cannot make its hospitality too wide. Marvellous enlargement has there not already been, through all ages and climes, of that narrow and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...so sickens the heart to hear, as common in the sense of base and wrong. So far therefore, from wishing to seclude the table from public participation and regard, I am free to say, we cannot make its hospitality too wide. Marvellous enlargement has there not already been, through all ages and climes, of that narrow and ill-furnished board where the Twelve with their Master reclined! Shall it not yet reach round the earth, and assemble to itself all mankind, as the disciples of a common Saviour, the children of a common Father, whose honor will be exalted as it is wide? If it be asked, what then shall prevent the festival, that is so common, from being cheap, I answer, the spirit and force thrown into its administration. If no feeling is brought to the form by minister or people, none will pass through it or be carried away. It is no generator of holiness, but only a channel. It will express, and by expressing confirm, the devotion with which it is observed. But when coldness sits in the chair, the table will be unafFecting and cold. It is no medium for the working of miracles upon the unbelieving and dead. For He who denied his mighty works to such on earth will not perform them from heaven. Here, too, to him that hath shall be given. Not alone who shall partake, but who shall administer it, is a question. But why should the publicity of this particular ordinance destroy its solemnity? The solemnity of no other service of religion de pends on a scanty attendance. Public wor ship is more solemn in proportion to the num bers gathered with one consent, awed before the voice of truth or the accents of praise melted with pathos or still as flocks of winger creatures, that hold one flying shape through the sky, in the height of common ecstasy The solemnity of the ...
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