St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-27
The SUTTON SERMON
The Brilliant Scientist, Miss
Sutton, Delivers a Fine
Discourse
Touching Upon the Com
memoration Of the Sup i
per Of the Lord.
But Two Sects Literally Fol-
low Out the Divine In
Junction.
What the Communion Means
From a Christian Sci
ence View.

This being the Sunday for our COM
munion service, L take for my text these
words of Jesus spoken while eating the
Passover feast with his disciples Oh the
night of the betrayal: ''Take, cat; this
is my body"
| think the society of Friends and the
Christian scientists are the only Chris
tians who commemorate the Lords sup
per without the outward form of par
taking of bread and wine.
The purpose of my discouse today is to
bring out the spiritual signification of
the Passover feast and of Jesus words,
thus explaining the absence of the out
ward ceremony, and unfolding the fact
of that living Presence which Is the real
and only bread of life.
The Jews, under the leadership of
Moses, ate the Passover upon the eve of
their flight from Egypt into Canaan. II
was type of the passing over from the
bondage of sin into the freedom of
righteousness-("The passing from life
unto death.') The Jews had very
crude and material idea of this change
which Jesus declared was a new birth
and they made change from bondage
to supposed freedom upon so low a
plane that they did not gain true free
dom by this transition; but in the land OF
Canaan lived most inharmOnlOuSly with
the nelghborlng people. The true
passing Overf was never made until
Jesus made it. and he taught that each
nT hnd I IN flr IS IlrltA II n nE
Spiritually under5 TODD, the feast Of
the Passover Uhe communion" today
did not and does not point backward to
the flight of the Iraelites from Egypt;
neither to the last supper OF Jesus with
his disciples, but forward to the passing
over from death unto life, which must
be made by each individual. The Jews
ate the Passover
With Unleaven Bread.
What meaning is here? In the Scripture
the word leaven is used as the type of
oppos!tes, good and evil. Jesus used it
as type of good when lie said the
kingdom OF heaven is like the leaven
which a woman hid in three measures
of meal until the whole was leavene.i.
In this parable leaven represented the
dltfusiVe and transforming power Of
Christ's kingdom upon earth. which
shall spread and renew mankind as long
as there be any material to work upon,
just as leaven does. Again, he used
leayen as the type of the diffuSive and
corrupting power Of evil. when he bade
his disciples beware Of the leaven OF the
PhariSees and Sadducees. Therefore,
when the ISfaeliteS passed over from
Egypt they We're first to lay aside all the
evils IeaVem they had learned of the
id0latrous Egyptians. Bread means life,
and the bread without Ieaven which they
ate was the life of obedience to God,
which they had just BEGUN without
evil Egyptian practices. They were to
eat it in haste with their lolnS girt aud
their shoes on tlioir feet; that is, they
were not to tarry III their race for eter-
nal life, but were to have as little to do
with worldly affairs as possible and as
indifferently as possible.
Now, what about the passover feast
Jesus ate with the disciples on the eve
of his flight from grief to glory, from
the Egyptian bondage Of material
world to the spiritual freedom of a
heavenly Canaan? Was it eaten with
unleavened or leavened bread? 1t was
eaten with both. Materially with un
leayened Bread as was the custom;
spiritually with leavened bread. The
Jews had long Kept the passover which
pointed TO the great lesson and demon
Stration which was to be brought into
the world by Jesus. And now He was
to explain the otherwise meaningless
feast. They sat at the table and were
eating when he began the explanation.
This shows they had already taken ma
terial bread, and yet it is written,
And as they were eating Jesus took
bread. and blessed it and broke it, and
gave it toh is disciples and said: Take,
eat: this is my body"
They were already eating when he did
this: so it was not the material bread
He blessed and broke and gave to them,
else He would have done so at the COM
mencement of the supper. A little
thought deduced from the science of
being, as taught by Jesus, will unfold
all, the mind that was in Christ
Jesus is life. This life He ex-
pressed or explained in such Won
derful words that the people
exclaimed: Never man spake like
this man, He replied: My words
are spirit and they are life" He also
said: Il am that bread of life.
| am the living bread which came down
from heaven; if any man shall eat of
this bread he shall live forever; and the
bread that | shall give you is my flesh,
which | shall give YOU for the life of
the world He that eateth my
flesh and drlnketh my blood dwelleth in
me and in him."
HOW Easy EtEs
when we get the key to trace or inter-
pret that flesh" into "bread." the
bread into word" the word into
''mind" and mind into life" Now we
can understand the meaning of the
statement that Jesus took bread and
blessed it and brake it. and gave it to
His disciples. They had performed this
dead rite long enough. To truly bless
anything is TO get its spiritual significa-
ton. Then, and only then, is it blessed
to you. This is what Jesus did. He
unfolded to them the fact that this IN
leavened bread was type of the word
of God. which they had, but which was
not transforming power yet, because
they had not as yet obtained the real
TRUTH Thus He "bIessed' the
bread, or word. by spirltualizing
it. Then He brake it and
gave it to them; that is, He explained it
SO that each understood. From what
we have already learned, the explana-
ton is simple. He explained that the
material flesh was not the man-not
Christ. That He was spiritual indi-
viduality, manifested in the ideas or
words which fell from His lips. This
was the miod, the bread. the spiritual
substance (Which He had called ''fiesh");
this spiritual identity was His true be-
ing or body-a spiritual body, spirit
ual embodiment. This spiritual being
they had walked with for three years.
They had witnessed that it was not fet-
tered by the body of material flesh, not
subject to its laws. but that it controlled
the flesh, walking the waves, passing
safely through crowds of maddened
people who had taken up stones to cast
at Him, destroying sickness, restoring
sight and hearing, and raising the dead.
And He concluded in these words:
s.Take, eat; this is my body" or, in
other words, "Partake of this spiritual
life, for it is my being" He had already
assured them that whatever He really
was they were also when they saw
themselves perfectly. 1.-The servant is