The Lord’s Supper by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Mar 20, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 12.

The Lord’s Supper

By Editor

2027.—The Lord's Supper.

Should little children who have not been baptized, under six years of age, partake of the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper?
Should adults not of the faith be offered the ordinances, especially when we know their lives are contradictory to the Scriptures and they do not try to live right?

1. It would seem as tho parents would so instruct their children that the children would not wish to do this. Properly, baptism precedes the Lord's Supper, the communion of the body of Christ among those who have by faith accepted of Him. The better way with children would be to instruct them in this respect, and then it would be very clear to them.

2. If those who we feel are not Christians present themselves at the Lord's table among those that are, the responsibility of their eating and drinking rests with them and not with those who administer these emblems. The Lord knew the heart of Judas was not right, and yet Judas partook of the emblems of the Lord's body and blood at that supper, but the responsibility rested with him and not with Christ. When the Lord's Supper is administered, these things should be stated clearly: that the Lord's Supper is free and no one is debarred from partaking, but such communion involves certain obligations, according to the Scriptures, and those who take upon themselves to engage in it must themselves bear the responsibility, as set forth in First Corinthians 11.