1.
The central symbol and ever recurring observance every
Lord’s day at least.[i]
2.
The center of Christian worship, and of its celebration on
each first day of the week.[ii]
3.
The Lord’s supper is for the church only.[iii]
4.
I regard
all pretence in any to priesthood, save that which can be attributed, and which
in scripture is attributed to all saints, as the principle of the apostasy in
its present form of development and the denial of Christianity. Judaism had
priests, because the people could not themselves go directly to God where He
revealed Himself; Christianity has none between God's people and Himself in
their worship, because Christians are brought to God and have boldness to enter
into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. To set a priest to go for them as one
nearer to God is to deny the effect of Christianity. Besides, priesthood has
essentially to do with intercession, or sacrifice and offerings: and in the
Lord's Supper there is no sacrifice, nor is it intercession. The whole idea of
priesthood on earth is to be rejected, therefore, as utterly contradictory both
to Christianity and the act of breaking the bread.[iv]