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Rh wonders vanish and disappear when compared with the higher and more interesting view of the more remote ends, which view was intended to be presented to our contemplation every time that we eat and drink! Are you surprised at hearing of these more remote ends, and do you inquire what they are and mean? Let me then call to your recollection, that the mind also, as well as the body, has its food, without which it cannot live; and that this food also is of two kinds, answering to the two kinds of bodily food, called meat and drink. Accordingly you read in the Sacred Scriptures of “meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you;” [John vi. 27.]; which meat, it is evident, must be spiritual meat, or food for the mind. This meat is afterwards called the and  of the, Who is pleased to declare concerning it, “''Except ye eat the flesh of the , and drink His blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed'',” [verses 53, 54, 55.]

Do you further inquire into the reason why this food of your mind or spirit is of two descriptions, viz. meat and drink, or and, and why it is necessary to feed on both? It is manifestly this,