Partaking unworthily may cause sickness. No individual, whether officer or member, can pursue a course of this kind and escape condemnation. Such was also Paul’s faith in ancient days; for he wrote to the Corinthian Branch of the Church that in consequences of their partaking of the Lord's Supper unworthily many were weak and sickly among them and many had slept. (1 Corinthians 11: 26-30.) The Lord Jesus himself attaches so much importance to the sacrament that He has commanded His servants not to knowingly suffer any one to partake of His flesh and blood unworthily when they shall minister it. They are required to forbid such, because they who eat His flesh and blood unworthily eat and drink damnation to their souls.