But suppose there were any one who did not receive the Scripture account, it would be extremely interesting if such an one would endeavour to explain the introduction of either Sacrament, and would tell us who introduced it, and when, and how. If any person were now to endeavour to invent a third Sacrament he would find it very difficult to obtain for it a general acceptance through the world. The Church of Rome endeavoured to establish a new dogma respecting the Pope’s infallibility, and what was the result? They split off a large body of their own people, and they totally failed to introduce their dogma amongst any of the other churches of Christendom. In this respect the divisions of Christendom tend greatly to confirm the evidence of the Sacraments; for they show the complete impossibility of the introduction of these Sacraments at a later date than that claimed for them in the Scriptures. If Protestants had invented them, Roman Catholics would never have received them; or, to go back to a later date, if they had been invented by Rome they would never have been received at Constantinople. The Church of God is like a multitude of channels, all radiating from one centre. If you pour water into one channel you produce no effect on all the others, for the water will not pass across from channel to channel; but if there be a spring in the centre itself, then they are all filled together, for they all draw from one fountain-head. Just so it is with the Sacraments. If they had sprung up in any one branch of the scattered Church, they might have remained there; but there is no power on earth that could have carried them across into the other branches. So that now, as they are found in every branch, and in every part of every branch, the only possible explanation is that they have come direct from the fountain-head; that therefore the Scriptural narrative is perfectly true; and that they were founded, as there recorded, by our Lord Himself, and none other. As they came from Christ, the original centre, they spread through Christendom; as they were founded by the Author of Christianity, they are observed wherever Christianity exists. If any one doubt this conclusion, let him tell us where, when, and by whom they were first invented, and how after that they were spread through the world. But we have not done yet; for if we believe that the two Sacraments were founded by our Lord Himself at the time and in the manner recorded in the Scriptures, there are certain very important results which follow.