the possibility of risk and loss as our share of service.
We link ourselves to his death and accept the obliga-
tion of the cross.

It is open to any minister to emphasize thoughts such
as these, connecting the Lord's Supper with the King-
dom of God. All who have the new social conscious-
ness would feel their appeal. Any person encountering
antagonism or loss for the sake of the Kingdom would
find comfort and strength in connecting his troubles with
the cross of Christ. The Lord's Supper was instituted
by Jesus in full view of his death. We can fully share
his spirit only when we too confront the possibility of
suffering in the same cause.

The emphasis on such thoughts would be the reaction
of the social gospel on the religious and theological con-
tent of the Lord's Supper. They would be a challenge
to the Church to realize its mission as the social embodi-
ment of the Christ-spirit in humanity. They would
constitute a spiritual preparation for the actual experi-
ence of the Real Presence -- that Presence which re-
quires a social group of two or three because love and
the sense of solidarity are necessary to enable him to be
in the midst of us.

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