given me a share and a property in another life--the common life, the universal life which is in Him; and that, understanding this, I have come to give God thanks for it--thanks for myself, thanks for my brethren, thanks for the universe; and I have come to pray that, through His Son, He will deliver me, and my brethren, and the universe from that separate and selfish life which is the cause of all our woes and miseries, spiritual and fleshly, inward and outward. In this way, brethren, I reconcile the faith in that sacrifice which was made once for all--the full sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world--with that faith in each man to which Christ promises eternal life. In this way, I believe that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper explains and justifies both truths, not because there is some strange mingling in the elements of a body which must be received,--whether there is a spiritual organ to receive it or not,--but because it testifies to man of the eternal Lord of his spirit--of the Word who is his life, of the Word who was made flesh for the life of the world. I regard that Sacrament as looking backward to the beginning, onward to the end of all things--as speaking of Him from whom all things have proceeded, and in whom all shall be gathered up, whether things in heaven or things in earth. I do not think St. John had anything new to tell us respecting the Lord's Supper: it was already adopted in all the churches. Though he dwells so much on the last passover, he does not record again the breaking of the bread and the pouring out of the wine. He had a different task. He had to show why that act was not a formal religious ceremony, the badge of a profession; he had to show the eternal law upon which it rested--the ground there is for it in the relations of God and man. If you ask me, then, whether he is speaking of the Eucharist here,--I should say, 'No.' If you ask me where I can learn the meaning of the Eucharist,--I should say, 'Nowhere so well as here; for here I find the very signification of the sign. Here I may discover what the Eucharist has been to Christendom--what it has been to each man who has desired to be one of the great Christendom family--what it may be as a means of binding that family together--how it may become a bond to nations which are as yet lying beyond the circle of that family.'