foul with dust and blood, its throat gashed across,
its entrails laid open and steaming in its impurity to the sun--a vile
and horrid thing, which no one could look on without disgust, nor touch
without defilement. The picture appeared too vivid; its introduction too
little in accordance with a just taste. But this pulpit-master knew what
he was all the time doing. "And that," he said, as he pointed to the
terrible picture, "that is SIN!" By one stroke the intended effect was
produced, and the rising disgust and horror transferred from the
revolting, material image to the great moral evil.' And, in like manner,
This is the LAMB! we all said over the mystical riddle of the bread and
the wine this morning. This is the SACRIFICE! This is the DOOR! This
is EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US, and made sin for us!

6. In one of his finest chapters, Thomas A Kempis tells us in what way
we are to communicate mystically: that is to say, how we are to keep on
communicating at all times, and in all places, without the intervention
of the consecrated sacramental elements. And John Bunyan, the sweetest
and most spiritual of mystics, has all that, too, in this same supreme
passage. Every day was a feast-day now, he tells us. So much so that
when the elders and the townsmen did not come to Emmanuel, He would send
in much plenty of provisions to them. Yea, such delicates would He send
them, and therewith would so cover their tables, that whosoever saw it
confessed that the like could not be seen in any other kingdom. That is
to say, my fellow-communicants, there is nothing that we experienced and
enjoyed in this house this day that we may not experience and enjoy again
to-morrow and every day in our own house at home. All the mystics worth
the noble name will tell you that all true communicating is always
performed and experienced in the prepared heart, and never in any upper
room, or church, or chapel, or new heaven, or new earth. The prepared
heart of every worthy communicant is the true upper room; it is the true
banqueting chamber; it is the true and the only house of wine. Our
Father's House itself, with its supper-table covered with the new wine of
the Kingdom--the best of it all will still be within you. Prepare
yourselves within yourselves, then, O departing and dispersing
communicants. Prepare, and keep yourselves always prepared. And as
often as you so prepare yourselves your Prince will come to you every
day, and will