Mark 14. 23. And he took the cup and when they had given thanks etcMark 14:23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.

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We are here to day Corrected: today not to comemorate Corrected: commemorate the death of Jesus by eating bread Life or death of our dear by partaking of or drinking wine but to seek communion with his life and spirit that we would make our own Bread and wine In communion with Christ bread and can only wine can only stand for the thoughts they express and I ask only your kind and thoughtful [?] Unclear or illegible attention while I shall endeavor briefly to discharge the office of their interpreter Could I only give you a new and vivid sense of the faith and love of the greatness and truth of which they tell you would receive an exhilaration and conscious nourishment that neither that no material element can supply. Then would you understand what our communion service is designed to be and what it is to commemorate Jesus in spirit and in truth

The word sacrament comes from the Latin sacramentum which means the oath whereby the Roman soldier bound himself in allegiance to his general and this was no ritual service

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The conviction hourly deepens in my mind that the e [?] Unclear or illegible ssential value of christianity is not in doctrines, formal observances or mere moral precepts but in the great fact that it gives us in a human person a revelation, not of anything preternatural but of our own nature in its highest earthly developement Corrected: development That which blomed Corrected: bloomed out of thise life of Jesus filling the world with the odour of divinity was the ensample for man us and this coincidince Corrected: coincidence of the human it must yet appear in our lives

It may take a longer life than that of mortals to quicken it into vitality Burried Corrected: Buried deep it may be from human sight and lie dormant for thousands of years like the wheat found in Egyptian tombs but in the Father's house, the many chambers of SoulJohn 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. , it must somtime Corrected: sometime fully disclose its identity with the spirit of Jesus

Heaven only knows whatwhat searching methods, what agonies, what ages of crime what revolutions may be required for this imperishable germ of greatness and goodness to struggle up to freedom