Transcribed from the 1854 J. Dunn and Co. edition by David Price. CHRIST REMEMBERED AT HIS TABLE. * * * * * AN ADDRESS TO THE Churches of the Nottinghamshire Association, * * * * * ASSEMBLED AT THE LORD’S SUPPER IN FRIAR LANE CHAPEL, NOTTINGHAM, * * * * * ON MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 20TH, 1854. * * * * * BY JOHN ALEXANDER, MINISTER OF PRINCE’S STREET CHAPEL, NORWICH. * * * * * * * * * * PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. * * * * * * * * * * NOTTINGHAM: PRINTED BY J. DUNN AND CO., SOUTH PARADE 1854. AN ADDRESS. WE have come together in this one place, Christian brethren, for the purpose of celebrating a very simple yet instructive and impressive ceremony, which has been appointed to us by Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. “This do, said he, in remembrance of me.” To eat of this bread, and to drink of this cup, is that which he requires us to do. But we are directed to do it, not as if it were a common meal, nor to satisfy hunger and thirst, for “we have houses in which to eat and to drink,” but as a memorial of Him by whom it was ordained. “This do, in remembrance _of me_.” What is it then that we are now to remember respecting Christ? We are, no doubt, to remember what he is personally, as possessing in himself a divine and human nature; as being at once the Son of God and the Son of man—“the great God and our Saviour, Jesus Christ.” But, in connection with this sacred supper, we are more especially to remember _his death_. That one event is selected out of the many and marvellous circumstances which distinguished his wonderful history, as the only event which is to be celebrated by a religious ceremony. Though he triumphed over Satan, when he was tempted in the wilderness; though he wrought superhuman and divine miracles, by which he healed the sick and raised the dead; and though he was transfigured on the holy mount, when his face shone as the sun, and his raiment became white and glistering, and Moses and Elias appeared to him in glory; yet none of these circumstances, splendid and important as they were, are selected for commemoration at this supper. It is his death, his death by the shedding of his blood, which he has required his church perpetually to celebrate. This bread denotes his body which was broken, and this wine denotes his blood which was shed.