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Incisive questions

Christians, are you drinking his cup? Have you shared the blood of the New Covenant, the persecutions which attend a new and higher understand- ing of God? If not, can you then say that you have commemorated Jesus in his cup? Are all who eat bread and drink wine in memory of Jesus willing

truly to drink his cup, take his cross, and leave all for the Christ-principle? Then why ascribe this inspira- tion to a dead rite, instead of showing, by casting out error and making the body "holy, acceptable unto God," that Truth has come to the understanding? If Christ, Truth, has come to us in demonstration, no other com- memoration is requisite, for demonstration is Immanuel, or God with us; and if a friend be with us, why need we memorials of that friend?