The Lord's Supper and Denominations

Your principle is all wrong. It is not on a word I rest; but the Lord's table is not the expression of the external thing. The one loaf is the expression of the one body: baptism is the rite connected with the external thing. The table of the Lord therefore expresses unity, association with Christ; and this is the whole ground of the apostle's argument in 1 Cor. 10. Now they are avowedly in division: Baptist tables where others cannot go; others, where they are not members of the church even if admitted - they are members of such a church, but not of Christ, as being there. They may individually remember piously the Lord's death, and in that sense have the Lord's supper; but they are avowedly, on church ground, on other ground than the unity of Christ's body. I am fully satisfied that from Paul's death they never were even on the true ground of salvation, and identified the body with the corrupt external thing; though till, say A.D. 240, there was no external division - at which period some separated because they received back those who had denied the Lord in Decius' persecution.
If they are the Lord's table, why should not I go to them? it would be pure schism.
September, 1877.