If, therefore, the one, party relinquished the one, and the other party the other point (or dividing doctrine,) then the union between them was of course effected in the most natural way possible." [Note 5] We close our observations on this topic with the impressive counsels of the venerable Dr.Knapp: [Note 6] "Speculations concerning the manner of the presence of the body and blood of Christ, have not the least influence upon the nature and efficacy of the Lord's Supper.

What the Christian chiefly needs to know is the object and uses of this rite, and to act accordingly.

Vide Sec.145.He must there therefore believe from the heart that Christ died for him; that now, in his exalted state, he is still active in providing for his welfare; and that hence it becomes him to approach the Lord's table with feelings of the deepest reverence and most grateful love to God and to Christ.

Upon this everything depends, and this makes the ordinance truly edifying and comforting in its influence.

These benefits may be derived from this ordinance by all Christians; and to all who have true faith, or who allow this ordinance to have its proper effect in awakening attention to the great truths which it exhibits, it is a powerful, divinely-appointed means of grace, whatever theory respecting it they may adopt--the Lutheran, the Reformed, or even the Roman Catholic transubstantiation, gross as this error is." _The American Recension of the Augsburg Confession_.
The general principle, on which this Recension was constructed, is to present the doctrinal articles entire, without the change of a single word, merely omitting the several sentences generally regarded as erroneous, together with nearly the entire condemnatory clauses, and _adding nothing_ in their stead.