To be near unto God - pagina 340

supper springs from the focus of The holy supper bears witness to him of the glory of Christ, but only in the congregation, not without it. Hence no higher and holier institution could have been given to men, than when "in the night in which he was betrayed" Christ brake the bread and poured the of the Lord's this fellowship.

and called the Holy Supper into being. This is the centrum; here all lines become one, along which fellowship is established between the wine,

and God. Nothing therefore

soul

is more heinous, than the sindoing of those who by quarrelling and by passionate contention for the right of particular views cause this fellowship of God's saints to weaken and to grow faint. Our Savior gave us a new commandment, even that we love one another. This new love, which he commanded, is the tenderest love that is thinkable on earth, since

ful

it is

love, that God us up to himself. failing to understand

in the flood-tide of this

draw near unto us, and And what does he do, who, will

new

lift

this new love, abuses the church and this holy fellowship of love for the sake of propagating his own particular views, but break down Salem, destroy the tabernacle of the Lord, and as far as he is able obstruct fellowship with God? 63

"THE NIGHT

IS

FAR SPENT."

After conversion we are in an intermediate state until death. The night is far spent, the day is at hand, but it is not yet noon. That only comes when the glory of Christ shall break in upon all spheres. Until that hour we are ever approach336

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