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title: 'Necessity and Administration of the Lord’s Supper'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Sr.'
date: 1887-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Education'
- 'Sacraments'
scriptures:
- '1 Corinthians 11'
- 'Acts 10'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/van-dyke-1887-necessity-and-administration-of-the-lords-supper
---

# Necessity and Administration of the Lord’s Supper

Begins with Plato’s educational ideal; main essay defends the Lord’s Supper as a divinely-appointed, necessary means of grace in Reformed theology, equal to the Word.

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