STUDIES IN THE LORD'S SUPPER
VOICES FROM THE PAST
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On this page you will find comments from preachers of yesteryear as they commented on various aspects of the Lord's Supper and as I am able to run across those comments for inclusion here. But, you will also find quotes from men on many diverse topics (given time) that I have run across that have hit a cord with me.
David Lipscomb
"But the whole facts indicate the order of doing the things that constitute the worship is not a matter of divine legislation. While this is true, I prefer the Supper should come after the preaching, possibly because I have been accustomed to it, and the brethren generally have, and it is not wise to break up established customs unless there is good to come of it. In attending to the Supper we are commanded to 'tarry one for another.' That means to wait until all are present. I have never seen it attended to in the beginning of the service without some coming late, and so necessitate carrying the memorials to them after the others had partaken, or they would go without. While I think there is no divinely established order, it is better, with the habits of our people, to observe the Supper after the preaching, when teaching is regularly done."
David Lipscomb. Questions Answered: By Lipscomb and Sewell, edited by M. C. Kurfees, Gospel Advocate Company, 1974, page 676. (Originally copyrighted in 1921 by McQuiddy Printing Company, Nashville, TN.)
T. B. Larimore:
"we sometimes offer long prayers over the loaf and the cup, when and where we should simply give thanks, the Bible being our guide. Indeed, some of us sometimes pray over the loaf or cup, and fail to give thanks at all; whereas we have divine authority for giving thanks then and there-which we neglect to do-none-neither precept nor example-for praying then and there-which we do."
T. B. Larimore. "The Lord's Supper." Letters and Sermons of T. B. Larimore, Vol. 2, Ed. Emma Page, Guardian of Truth Foundation, 2006. Pages 441-442.
Leslie G. Thomas
"The essence of home is to be found in persons, rather than in locality. When, therefore, one has the presence and fellowship of those who are nearest and dearest to him, it is easy to be at home anywhere. But when the ones he loves are gone, the fairest surroundings will not fill the void which their absence has made. It is then that the heart longs for that which strangers cannot give, and old memories create a yearning for the old home of earlier days."
Leslie G. Thomas. The Beautiful Gleaner. Sound Doctrine, 1945. Page 63.
David Lipscomb
"I doubt if any man ever lived a day without sins of omission or commission."
David Lipscomb. Questions Answered: By Lipscomb and Sewell, edited by M. C. Kurfees, Gospel Advocate Company, 1974, page 241. (Originally copyrighted in 1921 by McQuiddy Printing Company, Nashville, TN.)
David Lipscomb
"If people of any age or country can be saved by their ignorance, without obedience to God, it is a great pity to enlighten them, for it is a certain fact that where people are enlightened but few of them will be saved."
David Lipscomb. Questions Answered: By Lipscomb and Sewell, edited by M. C. Kurfees, Gospel Advocate Company, 1974, page 267. (Originally copyrighted in 1921 by McQuiddy Printing Company, Nashville, TN.)