This most touching ordinance, specially designed by the Lord to bring Himself again and again to the remembrance of His people, is thus dismissed contemptuously by Mrs. Eddy: "The Passover, which Jesus ate with His disciples...was a mournful occasion, a sad supper taken at the close of day, in the twilight of a glorious career with shadows fast falling around: and the supper closed forever Jesus' ritualism or concessions to matter" (S. & H., pp. 32, 33).
Would any loving-hearted believer on the Lord Jesus acquiesce in this heartless, blasphemous way of treating this sacred subject? That none might misapprehend as to the supper, the Lord, after His resurrection and from the glory, made it the subject of special revelation to the Apostle Paul, who tells us distinctly he received this truth direct from the Lord, and ends by saying: "For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till He come" (1 Cor. 11:2626For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. (1 Corinthians 11:26)).
A system that has no room for the reverent maintenance of this ordinance stands condemned by the affections of the Lord's people. Communion services, so-called, are held at rare intervals in the Christian Science churches, but at these services no bread and wine are partaken of, no word is spoken, the communion is one of "silent thought." What a mockery to call this a communion service!