The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-18
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
For July 20 Is THE Lords Supper
Matt 1890; / Cor. 1885.
BY WILLIAM t. ELLIS.
LEST We Forget.

Matt. 1890; 1 Cor. 1885.
"Lest We Forget"
Great Britain has adopted a uni
form design for all the cemeteries in
France into which her fallen heroes
are to be gathered. In addition to
the small individual headstones, each
craven with a cross, there are to be
two large memorials in every burial
plot "a great stone cross, bear
ing a sword upon its face, and an
altar. or as it will be called, stone
of Remembrance" containing the
words. Their name liveth forever
more"
What that altar is meant to be, per-
sonally and nationally, so the Lords
Supper is designed to be to Christians.
1t is a feast of Remembrance: in every
act and phase it says, Remember
Jesus Christ.
There is a very human side to this
universal sacrament. Jesus, about to
go forth to die, was hungry for love.
He wanted to live in the hearts of
his intimates. So he established this
memorial rite. Wise parents do the
same, that the home life may forever
be vivid in the memories of their
children. Family customs and dis
tinctive observances are made a part
of the mental and spiritual heritage
of the sons and daughters who go
out from the home Fooftree. Blessed
is the person who has rich store of
these priceless recollectiohs. They
make the departed loved ones live
again. That was a first purpose of
the Master in creating the Lords
everywhere in remembrance of him,
as love token.
A Million Million Dead Forgotten.
More than a million million per-
sons have lived and died and beenl
Savior set up this memorial in a
Borrowed room in old Jerusalem; but
his memory is as green and precious
as ever; and the Sacrament is kept by
an increasing number of his friends
every year. In every land and Ian
guage the Lords Supper is celebrated.
Recollections flood a travellers
mind of strange times and places
where the communion has been
shared-kneeling on bare boards with
soldiers; clinging to the saloon rails
OF tossing ship at sea; in a dingy
little chapel in interior China, with
every other person present wearing
Chinese clothes; in idyllic country
churcheSand in great religious assem-
blies in the homeland. Only a few
udyS .d6Os OeAOIe SIX U CAOCk IN the
morning, I was present with the
monks at mass and communion in
the most ancient Christian church in
the world that has been in continuous
use-the one in the Greek Monastery
Of St. Catherine, on Mt. Sinai.
The universally of this observance
Is a visible idence of the triumph
of the cross. The Christ who died
lives still in the hearts of countless
men and women and children who
love him best, of all. This goodly fell
lowship is the worlds hope in a
troubled time. They are lovers of
Christ and therefore lovers of their
fellows; they have found him to be
a satisfaction for the deepest needs
OF their spirits; they offer him to the
An Egyptian Memory.
A few weeks ago. in the midst of
grave times in Cairo, I heard unusual
sounds proceeding from the windows
of the top floor of house across the
street from my room. Childish voices
carried strange music. 1 went out on
my balcony and looked and listened
and it was a Jewish family keeping
the Passover! And in Egypt, the
place of the Passover's beginning. The
incident stirred me strangely. This
was the memorial of the great deliver
ance, quite after the fashion of its
keeping by Jesus and his little band
of Jewish friends.
All that Passover means to the de-
vout Jew, the Lords Supper signifies
to the Christian. Christ, our Pass
over, was sacrificed for US" This rite
is a reminder of our salvation. Once,