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WESTMINSTER MESSENGER Entered as second class matter on March 22, 1928, at the post office at Lincoln 1 Nebraska under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published weekly by Westminster Presbyterian Church Sheridan and South Streets. Margaret Wiener Editor. Subscription price fifty cents per year.The REV. HAROLD F. WONDER, Pastor
MISS RUTH I. EASTERDAY Director of Christian Education CORNELIA GANT COLE Organist	MISS MARGARET WIENER Office Manager and Director of Young People MR. JULIUS A. HUMANN Director of Choirs	MRS. FRED S. VERINK Secretary MR. J. E. LATSCH Treasurer

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 5, 1945

THE COMMUNION      Next Sunday we shall celebrate the Sacrament of the Holy Communion. There is no service of greater importance or significance than that of the Communion. For nineteen centuries the followers of Jesus in every place have been faithful to keep the feast of His Passion. It is the Church’s perpetual watch at the cross. Though it has been celebrated under a variety of forms, every branch of the Church according to its temper and traditions, the whole Church has nevertheless been united in the conviction that through the Lord’s Supper we are in some way helped into an experience of Jesus Christ.
     The New Testament makes it clear that Jesus intended that the communion should do this very thing for us--quicken our health into an experience of his presence. "This do in remembrance of me", he charged his disciples on the evening he distributed among them symbols of his body and blood.
    Now, the word remembrance is a richer word than we have ordinarily thought. It means more than recalling a past event. One may recall an event without having it stir his heart or affect his life. The Greek word for remembrance is a verb which literally means to keep alive the sense of a thing, to think of it as though it were right at hand. The Lord’s Supper is not merely a memorial to make us think of the death of Christ, but to make us mindful of him, to help us think of him as one present. Our minds tend to crowd Christ out. They are filled with lesser things. When we come to the Communion in the right spirit, worldly interests recede and Christ occupies the whole soul. It is then that one experiences the Real Presence.
     Can any other engagement be important enough to keep you from this service next Sunday? Can there be any better way to begin the New Year than to keep this feast in the Sanctuary of God?
                                                                                                    Harold F. Wonder

Sunday, January 7
Morning Worship, 11:00 A. M.
Sermon
"The Complete Gospel"
The Lincoln ‘Westminster Choir

Sunday Evening, 7:00 P. M.
Church-Wide Eventide Worship
Meditation
"What Shall I Do With Myself?"
The Westminster Chapel Choir

From the
Guest Book
The guests and visitors who signed the Guest Book last Sunday, December 31st, include: Mrs. Nelson Berger. Nehawka, Nebraska; Mrs. David Halbersleben. Boston, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Booth, Pawnee City, Nebraska;

Capt. and Mrs. L. W. Freas, Florence, Ala.; Miss Jean Sturdevant, San Diego. Calif.; A/C Richard B. Dawson, Pensacola, Florida; Mrs. Eunice Camp Barnhart, Los Angeles. Calif.; Mrs. John D. Clayton, Grand Island, Nebraska; Cpl. Tom C. Pierson, Camp Cooke, Calif.; Fred S. Verink, 1st Lt. D. C., Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.