and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the holiest of all"? If our eyes have

been enlightened, then we may say the prayer of Eph. 1: 18-20. The Lord will make plain

the hope, and the riches of the glory.

Daniel (Dan. 10:), Isaiah (Isa. 6:), Job (Job 42:), Paul (Acts 9:), and John (Rev. 1:) all

testify to the exceeding greatness of the heavenly vision. We must not expect to

apprehend all at once the things for which we have been apprehended by Christ

(Phil. 3:). We want no "word battles." The apostle in Phil. 3: 15 says:--

We have no commission to "strive." With meekness and gentleness we seek to teach

the truth as far as we see it. We seek grace to be patient, to bear up under evil, in

meekness instructing those who oppose themselves, peradventure God will give them a

change of mind unto the knowledge of the truth. We can no more have two baptisms, if

the Lord says to us in the sevenfold unity of the Spirit that there is but one. We can no

more observe "Days" or "Sabbaths"; we can no more observe the Feast of Unleavened

Bread, the Day of Atonement, the Passover, the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost, for all these

things have passed away. So also the Lord's Supper. Instituted to look back (as the

Passover looked forward) to the One who shed the blood of the new covenant, it has its

place in the dispensation of the kingdom. The Lord's Supper is to the new covenant what

the Passover Feast was to the Jew under the old covenant, and first typical deliverance.

Those who are "children of faithful Abraham," whether Jews or Gentiles, are looking for

the same inheritance as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whose affections, or minds, are

connected with the earth and its blessing; these may, with some show of consistency,

perpetuate the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, but those who have been blessed with all

spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ, who died with Christ, and who have been

raised together with Him, whose hopes are not linked with a renewed earth, but with a

new heaven, whose citizenship is not in the new Jerusalem which "comes down out of

heaven," but is in heaven itself, whose destiny is not to sit upon thrones, judging Israel or

the nations, but to show in the ages to come, unto principalities and powers in the

heavenlies, the Lord's wonderful grace to them, these will find Christ to be their all,

without the aid of type or symbol.

It is pleasant and refreshing to meet together with the Lord's people. The temptation to

remain silent on these things is great. Do we show our love to Him who gave Himself for

us by participating in a feast over which we begin to fell uneasy? Do we value

opportunities of service above faithfulness? The Lord does not accept our service in this

way. Let us be willing to limit our sphere of so-called service if it is to be at the expense

of faithfulness. Let us be willing to "go out, not knowing"; let us be willing to suffer the

loss of the fellowship of believers; let us be content to be misunderstood and

misrepresented. He is with us; He knows; He sees the heart; men only see the outward

appearance. Though all forsake us, we may say with Paul, "I know whom I have