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Address to Communicants at the Sacramental Table
by Dr. Hunter

To sit down at one table to partake of the same fare is
the happiest view of domestic comfort and of friendly
intercourse. The body and the mind are refreshed
at once. The bond of union is Strangthend and sweetened
between the father and the mother between the parents
and their children amond brothers and sisters
amond kindred and friends. So the enjoyment of that pure
and exalted felicity my brethren we are now invited
and with the prospects of immortality blend the endearing
charities of human life. The great Master of our Gospel
repast is not now indeed the object of sense but he is assuredly
with us he contemplates with complacency our
common faith and hope our mutual affection. He rejoices
in spirit while he beholds those for whom he died remembering
his death obeying his commandments living under
the influence of his spirit advancing in his Strength
tgoward the kingdom of heaven. Him not having seen
ye love and ye look forward to the day when ye shall
be like him for ye shall see him as he is.
Communicants ye are elevated to the summit
of an exceeding high mountain but not by the spirit
of delusion to survey airy or earthly kingdoms and a
glory unsubstantial and transient but by the spirit of
power and of love and of a sound mind to contemplate a
kingdom which cannot be moved a kingsom prepared for
you