The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
Scripture Proof

Johns gospel that Christ promised to give His flesh and blood for the i4le of mems souls.
 Labor not for the meat which per- isheth but for that which endureth unto everlasting life The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which l will give for the life of the world Verify, verify I say unto you except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood ye have no life in you John 6, 27:51:53.) These words were taken in their literal sig addressed, but they questioned the power of Christ to verify them. Their objection was: How can this man give his flesh to eat? Christians to day cannot question Christs power though they may legitmiately ask were those people correct in taking Christ's words literally? That they were correct in this is evident from the fact that in answer to this com plaint Christ repeats His words six times over. each time stronger, if pos sible, than before. Now many of His disciples abandon Him and walk no more with Him, because they find this n hard saying, and who can hear it?' Christ allows the multitude and many of His disciples to desert Him rather than give figurative meaning to His WOTuS ne IS pIepdTeu lO SdcTlHce the companionship of the chosen twelve. will you also go away?' Peter replies for the twelve; Lord, to whom shall we go?' The apostles accept Christ's words questioning not their meaning or His power, for they believe that he alone has the words of eternal life They accept the mystery. so great is their faith in Him.
 The Last Supper
 At the last supper Christs prom
 se is fulfilled. He says: Take, eat This is my body. Drink ye all of this This is my blood (Cf. Matt. 26, 26:27. Luke 22 1920; Mark 14:22-24; Cor xxi 2S-25)
 'It is contended that these words of Christ should not be taken in their literal sense. But there Is only one reason why they should not. and that is: Because Christ could not do what His words imply. But for one who believes that Christ is God this objection is not open to him. For if Christ could change water into wine as He did at Cana and could multiply five small loaves and two fishes so as to feed 5000 people, surely He as God could change the bread and wine into His body and blood
 "The best proof, however, that Christ meant His words to be taken literally is the fact that the apostles to whom they were addressed so understood them and believed that Christ had changed the bread and wine into His living body and blood. They under stood Him also to have given them power to work the same change. Fur ther they understood that He gave them the right to transmit that power to their successors, for that Is what they actually did
 they actually did All of which is proven from St. Pauls testimony as given in his first Epistle to the Corin- thians Co V, 16 c xii 2329) The cup of blessing which we bless is 1t not the communion of the blood of Christ. The bread which we break Is it not the communion of the body of Christi? Again in the eleventh chapter of the same Epistle St. Paul recounts in de- tail the words and actions of Christ at the last supper and then speaks Of the one who eats or drinks unworthily as being guilty of the body and blood of Christ. How could one be thus guilty, if the body or blood were not really present? Could one be guilty of the body and blood of Christ 1 if Christ were merely figuratively present? How could such awful cirme he invoked on one who had merely received a symbol. a mere fig ure, unworthily? How could the Cor inthians discern the body of the Lord in mere symbol, mere figure The Corinthians with Paul therefore 1 believed in the literal real presence.
 Universal Belief of Christians | "This was the faith of the universal Christian church for Is centuries. Il | was John Calvin who taught that ' Christ's words must be read, this rep