He commanded, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the Passover unto the Lord. The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs . . . So under these special circumstances, God still wanted them to eat the Passover. This practice places the proper emphasis on the importance of taking the communion. Supper has not been emphasized as it was in the days of the apostles.
Some groups only take it once or twice a year.
Adam Clarke, equally well-known, writes, . . . A few years ago the world watched as three gray whales, ice-bound off Point Barrow, Alaska, floated battered and bloody, gasping for breath at a hole in the ice. Their only hope was to somehow be transported five miles past the ice pack to open sea. Rescuers began cutting a string of breathing holes about twenty yards apart in six-inch thick ice. For eight days they coaxed the whales from one hole to the next, mile after mile.