table of the Lord
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"What we are seeking to restore." says San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James Pike, "is the family around the table of the Lord."
From Time Magazine Archive
She felt the loss, and had through much affliction gone to church that she might once more meet the assembly of the saints, at the table of the Lord, and then had been disappointed!
From Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward by Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)
I know, at my own table, whether I eat flesh or bread; how then should I be unable to know the same at the table of the Lord?
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah
A few days later Shrewsbury laid on the table of the Lord a bill for limiting the duration of Parliaments.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
A more devout communicant at the table of the Lord has perhaps seldom been any where known.
From The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 by Doddridge, Philip
