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In this view the Bishop of Winchester has recommended them. Charge, pp. 42, 43. Short and applicatory illustrations of the Communion service will give the most intelligent view, both of the ordinance, and of its mode of administration; the lack of it is often found a serious hindrance to edification. The grand subject of Christ crucified naturally leads us to explain the nature of the ordinance, the qualifications of worthy participants, both to awaken conviction about the sin of unworthily receiving it, and to grapple with the various perplexing scruples of the young Christian. See 1Cor. 11.23-32. More generally, the great doctrines connected with the knowledge of Christ, such as—union with him; the free offer of his salvation; the blessings and practical obligations flowing from it—these are in the spirit of our Lord’s discourses and prayer connected with the ordinance (John 14—16.) and will draw out the sacramental graces of faith and love for the conviction of the professor, and the excitement of the believer for more habitual and elevated devotedness. Matthew Henry’s well-known and excellent work on the Sacrament will suggest a considerable variety of subjects for these edifying meetings. An interesting account of them, and of a general system of instruction relative to the Lord ’s Supper, is given in Rev. Dr. Bedell’s Life, pp. 98-106.