May 9

He do shew the Lord's death. — 1 Cor. xi. 26.

This do in remembrance of me. — LUKE xxii. 19.

WHO is there of all the dwellers on earth that has not felt a desire to be remembered? To fulfil this wish monuments have been raised and colleges founded and hospitals endowed and brave exploits performed. To this object the miser has devoted his savings, the student his stores of learning, the painter his skill. Eulogiums have been pronounced by living orators, and inscriptions engraved upon lasting brass and marble. Poems have been written, statues sculptured, and bodies embalmed, that the names of men and some record of their lives might be perpetuated. Men have left legacies to be expended in celebrating with mournful obsequies the anniversary of their death, and annual feasts have been established for the purpose of remembering the departed.

So Jesus Christ, in instituting the Holy Supper, expresses a wish to which every human heart responds. By this ordinance shall his death, so ignominious in its circumstances, but so glorious in its results, be remembered in the repeated celebration of this prelude to the scene on Calvary, by the whole world of believers whom the power of his love and the preaching of his cross is to subdue to his beneficent control and make sweetly obedient to his blessed commands. Thus shall he be loved and trusted, and his memory be honored by sinners saved and sanctified to the end of time.

Charles Augustus Stoddard.

According to thy gracious word, In meek humility,

This will I do, my dying Lord, I will remember thee.

And when these failing lips grow dumb, And mind and memory flee,

When thou shalt in thy kingdom come, Jesus, remember me.

J. MONTGOMERY.