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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.

21	    If not ordained, shall the pastor of the Church of
  	Christ, Scientist, administer the communion, — and
  	shall members of a church not organized receive the
24	communion? 

  	    Our great Master administered to his disciples the
  	Passover, or last supper, without this prerogative being
27	conferred by a visible organization and ordained priest-
  	hood. His spiritually prepared breakfast, after his
  	resurrection, and after his disciples had left their nets
30	to follow him, is the spiritual communion which Chris-
 
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 1	tian Scientists celebrate in commemoration of the Christ. 
  	This ordinance is significant as a type of the true worship,
 3	and it should be observed at present in our churches. 
  	    It is not indispensable to organize materially Christ's
  	church. It is not absolutely necessary to ordain pas-
 6	tors and to dedicate churches; but if this be done,
  	let it be in concession to the period, and not as a per-
  	petual or indispensable ceremonial of the church. If
 9	our church is organized, it is to meet the demand,
  	"Suffer it to be so now." The real Christian compact
  	is love for one another. This bond is wholly spiritual
12	and inviolate. 
  	    It is imperative, at all times and under every cir-
  	cumstance, to perpetuate no ceremonials except as
15	types of these mental conditions, — remembrance and
  	love; a real affection for Jesus' ch...aracter and example. 
  	Be it remembered, that all types employed in the ser-
18	vice of Christian Science should represent the most spir-
  	itual forms of thought and worship that can be made
  	visible.
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