QUES. 15.-The subject of unleavened bread has come before our assembly, whether it should be used in our morning meetings. Some say that as our Lord had no sin in Him, He cannot be truly symbolized with leavened bread. Others claim that when Christ was shown in connection with His redeemed people, leaven was baked in the loaf. Your answer would be a help to us.

ANS.-Types of the Old Testament having served their purpose in pointing out spiritual things are not perpetuated in the New. Occupation with the materials used at the Lord's Supper can but obscure the blessed object which the Holy Spirit would occupy us with, and thus hinder the blessing intended. If you gave me a picture and said, "This is my beloved mother," and I began to talk of the frame enclosing it, would you not be grieved? It is your mother's picture that is precious, not the frame. Let HIM be so before our minds and hearts that the materials used disappear, as it were-though of the best we can procure.

We rightly infer that the same unleavened bread and fermented wine used at the Passover were used by our Lord in instituting this holy remembrance of Himself, but our attention is not drawn to those things, but solely to the blessed Saviour.

A special revelation was given to the apostle Paul concerning the Lord's Supper (1 Cor. 11:23), which he delivered to the Gentile assemblies, where unleavened bread was not in use. Since he gave no order as to what bread to use, are we not justified in thinking they used what was common among them? But as to the life and conduct that are to characterize those who partake at His holy table, the apostle gives careful instruction with serious warning (vers. 27-34). May we, with subdued spirit, adoringly sing with the poet:

"Oh, what a load was Thine to bear
Alone in that dark hour!-
Our sins in all their terror there
God's wrath and Satan's power!

The storm that bowed Thy blessed head
Is hushed for ever now,
And rest divine is ours instead,
While glory crowns Thy brow!"