3. All Roman Catholics try, where they can, to go to Mass every Sunday and holiday, and they believe that Jesus Christ is really and substantially present in the Host. They believe they receive Him in the Holy Communion also: and many of you are yet living, I have no doubt, to whom I carried the Holy Communion when you were sick. Now, the carnal presence of Christ in the Eucharist is tried to be proved from the sixth chapter of St. John and from the words of institution. The words in the sixth chapter of St. John must have been spoken at least thirteen months before the Last Supper, as may be seen by a reference to John vi. 4 and John xii. 1. The Church of Rome says Christ’s words, both in the Sixth of John, and at the Last Supper, must be taken literally. Very well. In the 54th verse of the sixth chapter of St. John, Christ says, “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.” Therefore all who do not receive the Holy Communion must perish, and baptized infants, for example, are eternally damned, I say the conclusion is inevitable, if the doctrine of the Church of Rome be true. But the same Church of Rome holds that baptized infants, when they die go straight to God. Again, in the 55th verse, Christ says, “He that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.” Therefore all communicants are saved. In fact, you are landed in absurdities to no end unless you take Christ’s own interpretation in the 64th verse, “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” Jesus gives the key also in the 35th verse, where He said, “He that cometh to me shall not hunger; and he that believeth in me, shall never thirst.” It is by believing in Jesus, and coming to Him, that we are to have eternal life. But the Roman Catholic Church attempts to prove the carnal presence of Christ in the Eucharist from the words of institution also: “This is My body, this is My blood.” She says nothing can be clearer than these words, and that, unless Christ intended to leave His real Body and Blood, He would have been guilty of deception. Well, when Jacob, in Genesis xlix. 9, said, “Juda is a lion’s whelp,” his words were very plain; but do you think any of his hearers believed Juda to be really a lion’s whelp? When we read in the 118th Psalm (verse 105), “Thy word is a lamp to my feet,” do we think God’s Word really a material lamp? When we read in John (x. 9), “I am the door,” do we believe Christ to be really a door? Not at all. Holy Scripture is full of figurative language, and Christ constantly used it. Besides, in Luke (xxii. 19) we read, “Do this for a commemoration of me,” and in 1 Cor. xi. 26 we read, “For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord, until He come.” So the Lord’s Supper was to be a memorial, a commemoration of Christ.