St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-18
PLACE OF SACRAMENTs.
Rev. j. j. Faude Considers Them as
an Essential.

Rev. j. j. Faude, rector of Geth-
semane church, Minneapolis, delivered
the fourth of a series of six lectures
at Christ church last night, using as
his subject THE Sacraments." He
said:
The Scripture and the creeds. the sacro-
ments and the ministry are something more
than the embodiment of mans experience with
reference to what may or may not have been
the word OF God, or as to what are after all
the real values of the sacraments of what Is
the true place OF the ministry Because un-
less there is recognized at the very beginning
the dlVlne obligation and the divine working
In all these things, it would seem as though
we had no ground upon which to stand One
may tell us that he believes not only in the
verbal but in the literal Interpretation of the
Holy Scriptures, and then tells us that it is
entirely matter of inspiration. Has he no
hrmer ground on which to stand than the man
on the other hand who stands on those books
which he calls holy writings? Yet, though it
seem to us dscouraging outlook that we
nave absolutely no real sure standing ground
nothing upon which we may build the SUPER
structure of our hope of the restored unity of
Christendom, let examine, though il may
be only Tor our own help, whether after all
the sacraments are necessarily to be under
stooo as being baptism and the Lords Sup,
per; those two generally necessary to saliva
tlon, and that they must be administered with
the unfailing use of the words and elements
Whlch Christ gave in their instruction. Very
much depends upon the circumstances when
anything is given, even when given by AL
mighty God. The sacrament of baptism was
divinely commanded by Christ at a supreme
moment in the work Of redemption. 1t was
not in the ordinary course of the Savior's
teaching. 1t was not given in the Sermon on
the Mount Not Immediately after his own
baptism. Somehow it seemed to have been
reserved to make a special event in the re-
demptive work of Christ. The sacrament of
baptism was commanded by Our Lord Jesus
Christ when he had called the eleventh to
come to him and receive his last words of in
struction, when he said Go ye into all the
world and preach the Gospel to every creature,
baptising them in the name of the Father the
Son and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever l have COM
manded you, and 10, l am with you always,
even to the end OF the world"
1t is the sacrament for admission in that
state, that organization, that society," nay
that Kingdom, wherein was to be carried on
the redemption work of Christ. 1t was the
door of admission, and in that kingdom men
were to find redemption, and this sacrament
was for them the entrance. But what was
required in that kingdom? Certainly none
could come in sin. With his heart black and
foul with vile deeds? None can be so re-
ceived into the kingdom of Christ. The sin
must be acknowledged, must be wiped away
pardon of the King. The church declares
that he who is baptized is regenerate. That
IS to say. he is born again. placed in a new
kingdom, and his sins are washed oway, that
he is a member of Christ, the Child of God
and fnheritor OF the kingdom of heaven.
Such is baptism.
1Acy VIM nave UeeH Jolneu together III the
one family by the one sacramental act where
upon their sins being RENTED they were
received into the kingdom of God, must also
feed today with the food given by the King
And so at another most marked time an in
cident an event, in the life of the Savior
On the night on which he was betrayed the
night before He was crucifed He took bread
blessed and broke it, and gave to His dis
ciples, saying: Take ye and eat, this is
my body, which is given for you. Do this
in remembrance of me- Likewise also after
supper, and when He had given thanks, He
took the cup. gave it to them, saying; Drink
ye all of this. for this is my blood"
What is this sacrament? Only memorial
my brethren? The painting of the cruci-
fxion would be more impressive to the nat
ural man than the sacrament of the body
and blood of Christi There must have been
something more than memorial; something
more than an endeavor to impress it upon the
mind. and was It not indeed so understood
by the apostles themselves, for st. Paul
writes and says: "The bread that you break,
is it not the communion of the body of
Christi" Christ is actually, really present,
though it be spiritually, yet for that reason
none the less actually and really present.