Quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I fear it is the effect of this ordinance to clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed and which distracts the mind of the worshipper.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Sermon given on September 9, 1832 at the Second Church, Boston, Massachusetts. "The Lord's Supper," Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903).
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