Daily Republican., 1878-11-21
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| Last Sunday. Rev. |. N. Haldsman
Pastor Of Delaware Avenue Baptis
Church, preached pointed and earn
est sermon from lst Corinthians, IL: 2;
-27. The following 10 but brief and
Imperfect sketch Of the discourse. Il
will give, however, . hint as to 1t,
drift:
Iwant to speak, he said, In opening
Of the uses and abuses Of the Lords
Supper. The amount Of ignorance or
the subject is amazing. Many have Z
mistaken idea, and so call the Supper
a sacrament, from Latin word mean
ing mystery. In some churches it il
taken four times q year, and always
with a weeks preparation beforehand
The Lutheran Church holds the doc.
trine Of consu b sanitation, which means
that in the elements, there is @
a union of the body Of Christ. The
Romish Church holds the doctrine Of
transubstantiation, that Ia, that thsr.
is a transfer of the bread and wine into
the body and blood of Christ. They
have set apart day to commemorate
this doctrine, calling it Corpus Christi,
Body of Christ. ..s.s4s.- rsEfs
The question which he intended to
discuss to-day, was, "Does the Bread
and the Wine in the Lords supper,
become the Body and Bisod d the
LoId jesus S. ' Jfs tgr
1st. This doctrine is manifest alb
surdity. The same body cannot at the
same moment Of time occupy two diff
ferent places. Christ can be at more
than one place at q time because he is
q spirit, he ia God; but body can be
but IN one place at one time. Christ's
body is at the right hand Of God whore
he holds his sessions in the control of
the universe. He cannot b. in Heaven
and also on the earth.
2. The doctrine of transu bstantia.
tion is shocking to every sencs Of de
cency. According to it, When yoa sit
at the Lood's table, you are actually
eating the aesh Of Christ and swallow
ing his blood. Can cannibslism go
further! Is not such doctrine worthy
of the South Seq fslandersl 4
The doctrine confers creative power
upon men. No one would claim that
the bread and wine in itself naturally
considered is the body and blood Of
Christ. When, then do they become
sof When IL the bread changed 2
When it Is being baked or being carried
in tho basket into the church, or when
the administrator takes hold Of iti
There ID point according to this doc.
trins, when the bread passes into body
and the wine into blood, and how is
this done but by the act Of the admin
istrator, and according to the doctrins
therefore, the administrator becomes
God, who out of bread makes the body
Of the Lord Jesus. The speaker here
gave an anscdote or two illustrating
ths absufdity of the doctrine. 3st
The doctrine Of trsusubstantiation
cruoi6es the Son of God afresh, and
puts him to an open shame. Every
time you come to the Lords table ac-
cording to this doctrine, you put the
Lord to death, yet the Scripture says,
"Oncs in the end Of the world.' 'In
that he died unto sin once, he diath no
5."Ths doctrine is inscriptural.
more"
There is no foundation for 1t inside Of
the word Of God, but like all other
heresy, it grounds itself in the Scrip
lures by taking one part Of the Scrip
lures and ovsrshsdowing the rest. Joh n
6. SO, is often used in support Of the
doctrine. "Verily,Dverily, | say unto
you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son
Of man and drink his blood, ye have
no life in you." The meaning Of this
We are to understand from the context,
that 'is, what goes before and after. l
can find in the Bible the words, "There
Is no God," but the context completes
the thought, the fool hath said in his
heart tn ere is no GOd.'
This text has no relationship TO the
Lords supper. He was speaking to the
Jesus Of the experience Of Israel In
Egypt. Their fathers "ate mama in
the wilderness and are dead. am
the living bread which came down from
heaven. Ifany man eat Of this bread
he will I've tsrever," &C., which
will give for the life Of the world. In
the 63rd verse he entertains the pas.
sage: at is the spirit that qnickensth;
The flesh proftsth nothing; the words
which l speak unto you, they are spir-
It and they are life.' He said to them
''Ye have no life in yci;" yet they
we're alive. He did not mean that
they had no flesh and blood life; He
meant that they had no spiritual life.
They had the flesh and blood life. He
to kind of life which is not
by eating flesh. "Your faith
prs ate mama in the wilderness and
are dead" They have lost their flesh
and blood iife, but He came to offer
them . spiritual life, the "bread that