Let us recall the events in the Upper Room at the Last Supper. Merely on the human side they are of touching import. One who has lived a holy life of faithful service is giving “for the greatest of ends the greatest of gifts,”1 He is giving Himself. Through the Agony and the Trial, through the death on the cross, He is to make the final surrender of His human will. He has gathered round Him His closest friends that they may eat with Him for the last time before He dies. In the meal He gives them
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