Church
Illustration★★★Deadness in the It was an Egyptian custom at festal banquets to introduce a corpse, and seat it at the table, to remind the guests of their mortality. Its fleshless, skinny hand rested on the board, but moved not the viands; the glassy eyeballs fixed their dead stare upon the guests, but the light of life, in which those orbs once swam, was extinguished forever.
In such a presence the festivities proceeded. In such a presence roceed often the sacred festivities of Zion. I have seen a corpse at a sacramental supper, stone dead amidst the guests of Jesus. Not a tear on the cheek, nor a quiver of the lips when Jesus showed his wounds.
The dull, dead, unlightened eye never sparkled, the bosom heaved not, the entombed tongue clove to the roof of its mouth, amid all the outbreak of a Saviour’s love and tenderness! Alas! figures are inadequate to set forth the entire melancholy of the case. FF. Trench.
The point
Comparing a dead corpse propped at an ancient banquet, Trench laments believers who sit spiritually dead and unmoved at the Lords Supper despite Christs love.