INTRODUCTION CONTENTS. DISCOURSE I. Page. ORDINANCES 21 II. THE BODY OF CHRIST 34 in. THE CHURCH OF CHRIST 48 IV. THE CHURCH AND THE SYNAGOGUE 63 V. THE LORDS TABLE 76 VI. EATING THE LORDS SUPPER 87 vn. THE CHRISTIAN REVOLUTION 110 vni. CHRIST OUR PASSOVER 121 IX. THE VOICE OF CHRISTS BLOOD 133 X. PRESENCE OF CHRIST 144 XI. THE THOUGHT OF CHRIST . . . . . . 156 XII. LOVE FOR CHRIST . 168 1 VI CONTENTS. Tgt. XIII. COMMUNION WITH CHRIST . 4 . . . . .183 XIV. CHRISTIAN FORMULA OF BAPTISM ..... 201 XV. THE RELIGION OF FORM, OF DOCTRINE, AND OF SPIRIT . 220 XVI. COMMON GROUND OF MOSAIC AND CHRISTIAN WORSHIP . 229 XVIL CHRISTS NEW ORDER OF NOBILITY ..... 238 xvm. THB FORM OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN THE CHRISTIAN MIRACLES ........ . 251 XIX. CHRISTIAN POSTURE OF THE PROBLEM OF EVIL IN LIFE . 264 XX. CHRISTIAN REPRESENTATION OF DEATH AS A SLEEP . . 274 XXI. WHAT THE CHRISTIAN HAS TO LIVE AND TO DIE FOR . 283 XXII. THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF HEAVEN AND HELL . . 294 THE CHRISTIAN DEFINITION OF IMMORTALITY . . .315 XXIV. THE CHRISTIAN CONDITION OF SATISFACTION . . . 327 XXV. CHRISTS DOCTRINE OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN . . 337 XXVI. THB CHRISTIANS HEAVENLY VISION..... 349 CONCLUSION ...... 361 DISCOURSES. DISCOURSES. INTRODUCTION. AN intention to explain what may appear singular in my title, to show the sources of my preparation, and, upon a hearing already beyond expectation or claim, to justify this request of the public ear, may authorize some preliminary remarks. Some time ago, I put forth a volume on the Christian Spirit and Life. Ever since, one haunting thought, more close than any other, has continually returned to me, asked for expression, and called itself by this name of the Christian Body and Form. It has offered itself as a subject necessary to balance and complete the former theme and, moreover, as by many persons among us, in their tendency to view things under the light of abstractions, now much neglected for the running after ghosts, that so marks the present period, would seem a fit cari cature of the disposition to hunt for truth, less among the substantial facts of providence and experience, than in the thin air of metaphysical 1