Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
is the sabbath of the Lord thy God." Is not "the seventh day
equal in signification to every seventh day? Most certainly!
The like truth appears from Paul to the Corinthians. On the
first day of the week they came together. He clearly intimated
that the intention of their coming together was to eat the Lord's
Supper, but that in their divided state they could not eat so as
to make it the Supper of the Lord. Thus, in apostolic example,
we have the law of the ordinance as to frequency—the Lord's
table every Lord's Day. David King.
536. The Lord's Supper is memorative, and so it has the
nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to
a dear surviving friend. It is like a ring plucked off from
Christ's finger, or a bracelet from His arm, or rather His picture
from His breast, delivered to us with such words as these:
"As oft as you look on this, remember me ; let this help to keep
me alive in your remembrance when I am gone, and out of
sight."
Flavel.
537. Now, if you ask me why Christ called the sign by the
name of the thing itself, I ask thee again, Mayest thou say,
when thou seest the picture of the Queen, "This is the Queen"?
or when thou seest the picture of a lion, "This is a lion"? And
may not Christ say when He sees a thing like His body, "This
is my body"? . . . The reason why the signs have the names of
the things is to strike a deep reverence in us to receive the
symbols of Christ reverently and holily, as if that Christ were
there present in body and blood Himself.
Smith.
538. "An aged man once broke out in an exciting manner,
describing battles he had fought with wild beasts, telling most
graphically how he was attacked, and how he conquered. His
friends asked, 'When was it?' 'Why, only yesterday,' he replied;
'haven't you heard about it?' As a matter of fact, it happened
sixty or seventy years ago. Memory had broken down all the
bridges of time and space, turned life back upon itself, and
made a century ago become as yesterday. This is exactly the
philosophy of the Lord's Supper. 'Do this in remembrance of
me.' Let nineteen hundred years drop out of sight. Let the
two ends of the dispensations be folded together like a scroll.
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