I have heard some rash people say that the various sectarian celebrations of the supper are tables of devils. But this proves only the unbrokenness and ignorance of him who says it. The heathen altars are called tables of devils because, and expressly because, what they offered, they offered to devils and not to God (Deut. 32:1717They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. (Deuteronomy 32:17)). But to call Christian assemblies by profession, ignorant it may be of ecclesiastical truth and hence meeting wrongly, tables of devils is monstrous nonsense and shows the bad state of him who so talks. No sober man, no honest man, can deny that Scripture means something totally different.
There is no membership of brethren. Membership of an assembly is unknown in Scripture. It is members of Christ’s body. If people must be all of you, it is practically membership of your body. The Lord keep us from it.
J. N. Darby