The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1910-11-04

verses 26-5S.
Golden Text-"This is my body which
is given for you: this do In remembrance
of me."-Luko 22;t9.
Time-Thursday evening. April 6. A. ID.
30.
Piace-An upper room In Jerusalem.
This lesson Ia full of dramatic in
cidents. A harmony is necessary to
understand the scenes in full.
The first great day of the Passover,
which tasted a week. began at sun
set on the evening after the 14th OF
April, which by the Jewish reckoning
wa the beginning of the 18th when the
regular Passover supper was eaten.
The disciples came to Jesus, some
time on Thursday. saying Where
wilt thou that we prepare for thee
to eat the passover? "A o was
needed. with tables surrounded by
.aouches, for the Passover must be
eaten reclining. since 1t was a
hat ever the poorest must partake
of that supper in a reclining attitude,
to indicate rest. safety and liberty"
Then there must be obtained un.
~1eavened bread, bitter herbs, wine, and
a paschal lamb, which must be slain
in the temple between three and five
O'clock, and cooked in a private home.
Jesus and his disciples probably left
Bethany late Thursday afternoon,
walked two or three miles, and reach
ed the upper room soon after sunset.
The strife probably began when the
disciples were assembling in the up
per room, and were about to take their
places at the table. Even in this
most solemn hour, more solemn than
they realized, there arose "a conten-
ton among the disciples as to who
should be the greatest. probably with
reference to the places of honor and
nearness TO Jesus, with an outlook to-
ward the highest places in the new
kingdom which was soon to begin.
Also because no one was willing to
take upon himself the servile duty of
washing the travel-stained feet of the
company.
There was doubtless a mingling of
good and evil motives in the disci-
pies.
At length ali were reclining at the
tables and the Passover supper was
begun. Jesus wisely waited till time
had been given for the excitement to
be quieted. and the disciples to come
to a better frame. of mind. Then
by q symbolic action he taught them
a lesson which has been needed all
down the ages. He who had all power,
who came forth from God, and was
going to God, arose from the suppe
poured water into a basin, and wash
ed his disciples feet. including the
feet of Judas, into whose heart the
devil had put the plan to betray him.
And as they were eating the Pass
over meat Jesus used the same bread
and wine that was upon the Passover
table and taught the Passover truths.
The rites Of the new kingdom of heav-
EN- expressed for the spiritual life the
'deliverance from the slavery of sin,
the redemption through blood, the
promise of allegiance to the Lord, the
hope of he promised land, which was
enacted In actual life by the saving
of the Israelites from the bondage of
Egypt. The Passover brought to-
gether the largest number of individ-
uals to claim and consciously recog.
nize their part in Gods redeeming
grace and power, and because of Its
sens of allembracing victory, millen.
NAL gladness, universal salvation,
was better fitted to become the dis.
tinctise n enduring symbol of re.
demption, and express the mighty
hopes OF Jesus as he stood on the
fhrnnhnsI xf Isn af@ AL.- -
1.-The sacrifices of the altar"
Jesus took bread, the thin cake OF
~unleavened bread, and blessed it, I'm.
voked blessings" "consecrated with
solemn prayers" Take, eat, make II
a part OF yourselves. This is my body
symbolizes my body. does for your
bodies just what my spiritual life does
for you souls.
This is my blood. A type of EN-
7blem Of his blood, his life, which he
laid down as the atonement for sin
"Of the new testament, which God was
now confirming to men. The new GOV
'enant was that God would enew and
save ali who believed in Jesus. 1t Is
the new promise to men, the new Cos
pei d~ispensation, In which God has
used his perfect wisdom In seking tc
save the world from sin. Which IL
shed for many Multitudes. not mere
lily a few, are to be saved by Christ
For the remission of sins, includiI-
the forgiveness of sin, and the de
.liverance from the power OF sin. Sir
is to be put away entirely.
The Supper is a kind o. All Saints
day. We become one. not only witt
those around ia, but with those whit
have gone before, to join the heaven
1y host.
II is a feast of victory. 1t was thu
sun triumphing over darkness. Tn,
Lords Supper is a prophecy o
Christ's second coming, of the perfec
triumph of his kingdom; for we ar