We are taught that as often as we eat the Lord's supper, we proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. Thus there is the implication in our taking of the Lord's supper, that we believe that Jesus died according to the eternal purpose of God, that He was raised from the dead, that He ascended to heaven, that He is now King, and that some day He is coming again to call all men into judgment. It is clear also, that the eating of the Lord's supper is one purpose for our coming together on the first day of the week. From these verses we see the direct command from the Lord, and the example of the disciples taking it on the first day of the week. It is a memorial service.
Memorials are natural and universal.
The savage and the cultured, the poor and the rich alike, all have relics and memorials. America has her Independence Day and Memorial Day. Other countries have their holidays peculiar to their natural history. The Lord's supper is also a memorial service or a monument. Those who partake of it have their minds carried back to that awful night in Gethsemane, to a cruel mob.