(Scripture Reading Exercise.)
SYMBOLS OF THE ATONEMENT.
ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
I. The Two Great Christian Symbols. | All the texts and contexts of this lesson, and also Matt. xi:26-29; Luke xxii; I Cor. xi:23-30. Doc. & Cov., Sec. xx. Moroni ix, v. |
II. Baptism. 1. Introduction and Formula. 2. Symbolism of Atonement in Baptism. 3. Realities Give Virtue to Symbols. | |
III. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper—Eucharist.[A] 1. The Prayer of Consecration—Formula of. 2. Symbolism of the Atonement in the Eucharist. 3. Realities Back of Symbols. |
[Footnote A: The commemoration of the sacrifice of our Lord is often and I may say generally called Eucharist. "The Lord's Supper, a solemn rite commemorating the dying of Christ for the salvation of men; the Holy Sacrament, the communion of the body and the blood of Christ" (Funk & Wagnall Dic.).]
SPECIAL TEXT: "Except a man be born of the water and of the spirit he can not enter into the kingdom of God." (St. John iii:5.)
"For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come." (I Cor. xi:26.)
DISCUSSION.
1. The Two Great Christian Symbols: The two great Christian institutions of baptism and the sacrament of the Lord's supper have already been alluded to as evidence of the fact of the Atonement.[A] They are now to be considered as symbols of the Atonement. I take up baptism first, as introduced by the Christ himself among the Nephites, because there more perfectly than elsewhere we have this symbol set forth, and only there, in ancient scripture, is the exact formula of the ceremony given. The account of it in the Nephite record stands as follows:
[Footnote A: Lesson XI which see.]
2. Introduction of Baptism Among the Nephites—Its Formula: