Lord's Death! Are we sure that it might not be good to watch with him one hour, as in a spiritual Gethsemane, before, in the world, we incur the risk of deserting him at the Cross? Might it not be well to bear about with us the Dying of the Lord Jesus, that the Life also of the Lord Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh?

Sad at least it is, that a Memorial Act designed by Christ to symbol spiritual Union should become an occasion in which disunion is displayed!

PART III.

(CHAPS. XII.-XIV.)

THE OFFICE OF LOVE IN DRAWING INDIVIDUALS INTO A COMMUNITY; ENRICHING

THE WHOLE BODY WITH THE GIFTS

OF EACH OF ITS MEMBERS.

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AS THE BODY WITH ITS ORGANS AND LIMBS: EACH ES

SENTIAL IN ITS PLACE; AND THE GIFTS AND GRACES OF EACH, THE WEALTH AND ADORNMENT OF ALL.

CHAP. XII. 1-30.

Now concerning spiritual things, brethren, I would 2 not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto dumb idols, even as ye were 3 led. Wherefore I give you to understand that no one speaking in the spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed, and no one can say, "Jesus is the Lord," but in the 4 holy spirit. Now there are diversities of gifts, but 5 the same spirit. And there are diversities of offices, 6 but the same Lord. And there are diversities of inward workings, but it is the same God who worketh 7 them all in all. But the manifestation of the spirit 8 is given to each, according to what is expedient. To