Article January 13, 1945 Issue

The Morning Meal

EDWARD H. RETHMAN

The communion which Christian Scientists commemorate at their Sunday services twice each year is a joyous occasion. At this feast they do not look to the material senses for inspiration, but to the fount of the Christ. Truth, where they partake of that living water which Jesus described to the woman of Samaria (John 4:14) as "springing up into everlasting life."

The Bible records the many feasts of Hebrew religious worship. There were the feasts of Tabernacles, of Pentecost, and chief among them the feast of the Passover, which had been instituted by Moses. Jesus' observance of this feast with his twelve disciples on the night before his crucifixion gave a new name and a new meaning to this commemoration. Christians call it the Lord's last supper. In its new import, the act of eating unleavened bread became symbolic of partaking of the body of Christ, or participating in the living example which Jesus set for the world. Drinking wine represented the blood of the New Covenant, in which all must share who follow in the way of Christ and meet the world's resistance to Truth and Love. This was the cup which Jesus drained to the dregs.

But it is none of the early Hebrew feasts which Christian Scientists commemorate. That which they commemorate is the morning meal, the spiritual breakfast, which Jesus prepared for his disciples after he had risen from the grave.

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