Editorial January 8, 1944 Issue

"Drink ye all of it"

Evelyn F. Heywood

The commands which Christ Jesus gave to his disciples were meant not for them and for their time alone; they were for all. The ability which was implied—for back of every Christ-command is the power to fulfill it—always accompanied and supported it. He made no demand upon his followers which, as their Way-shower, he had not first fulfilled. He showed ever in demonstration its present possibility for those who, as he did, understood and obeyed the divine will. "Drink ye all of it," he said of the communion cup. What was this cup they were to drink, and what did its drinking entail?

On page 35 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes: "Our cup is the cross. Our wine the inspiration of Love, the draught our Master drank and commended to his followers."

Does our cup sometimes seem heavy to us; does the drinking of it promise not joy but sorrow, dangers, difficulties, and temptations? Then let us remember that within it, within this cup, is the wine of inspiration; that here for us is the very vehicle of communion with Spirit which will do for us what it did for our Master. Through it are the means of overcoming, bringing to us power, the assurance of victory.

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