The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-04-24
M. KS Last Compliment to J. c. G.
To be Right is Better than to be
Consistent.

lt needless TO burden me with such an
impossibility. He takes the near cut
and charges me with perverting the Holy
Scriptures He don't deny that bar
rels of grape juice was made, but he
thinks, to calL~it wine, is a perver-iOn. /
suppose he believes that st. John made
a small mistake in saying mine when he
meant something else, or that Noah
Webster in his Dictionary don't seem 70
know what wine is. Now feel like
impaling my jealous, but unwise friend
on the horns Of another dilemma but as
he has not succeeded in getting away
from the last one will have mercy on
him. To impale him again might rem
der me liable under the law, (Which 1
am so notorious for violating already
against cruelty to animals, and the own
ers of them.
The governor Of the feast was not
Christ, as innocently supposed, but he
was better judge of wine and his tes-
timony that it was not raisin broth, or
milk and water juice of the grape, IS
therefore of great value, in sustaining
the merit of the article which my friend
charges Christ with having Palmed of
as wine when it was only "water and
SIGH"
If the wine of those days did not
"make drunk" why is it that they have
woe, and sorrow, and redness Of eyes who
tarry long at it, and how came father
Noah to get into condition, fit for the
lock up of bis teetotal descendants2 That
was wine was it? Yes. Well was that not
also wine which Christ made? Wine is
fermented juice of the grape. Will my
friend continue to charge his Redeemer
with calling that wine which was not
wine, or shall we conclude that he (my
friend) calls that juice Of the grape
which Christ and Webster and the Gov
ernor Of the feast call wine. If J. G. G.
knows better than God and Webster,
what wine is, l advise him to revamp
the creation and issue new Dictionary,
called the "Womens War Edition, una
bridged." For my own part | don't
think ]. c. c. is a good judge Of wine.
He don't profess to drink enough Of it
to say much in regard to its qualities.
He believes il criminal to hold up the
intoxicating bowl to the lips of we'd
ding party or "any other man." and un-
Willingly puts his Redeemer on trial for
making wine, and to get him off with
out censure, fine or crucifxion, he at
temps to make the jury believe that
Christ fooled the wedding party into the
belief that he had made wine when he
made only grape juice.
The merit of the miracle Is thus sto-
len from Christ for if the party partook
of grape juice (instead Of wine as St.
John testifies) the miracle is robbed Of
its chief merit which consists not in
making water taste like grape juice, for
such a feat does not excel the chemistry
and the forgery of our own time, but the
making water taste and look like piae
that can only be made by waiting a long
time for the natural action of the ele-
ments of fermentation. Therein con
sists the miracle, and j. G. G. denies the
chief condition on which there could
have been one of undoubted character
such as Christ must have intended and
such as St. John and the Governor tes-
tify he performed.
DID CHRIST DRINK WINE?
When his mother said: These people
have no wine. He replied, Woman, what
have to do with thee? Ny hour is not
yet come. What hour? Was it not his
hour for drinking wine, or was il an
hour which had no relation to wine or
the query Of his mother? / prefer be-
leiying he referred to his hour for wine
drinking. If he was replying to his
mother, is it not reasonable to presume
he referred to the subject under consider
alton and this subject was wine. there
fore think he meant the same as If he
had said, My hour for drinking is not
yet. therefore conclude that the max
ing of wine, and the drinking thereof
in moderation, has been u christian
practice since the time Of Christ, and
and will continue so to be until Christ is
regarded as bad man.
CHRIST OPPOSES STREET PRAYING,
but the theology Of J. G. e. finds him
only opposed to hypoeritespraying on the
street corners. Ahl is hat all? Here is
as fat perversion Of Christ's opposi-
tion as the devil is capable Of making
when he would capture the liberty Of
men in the name Of prayer and press in
the services Of Christ to make the con-
quest. Christ's disciples are not hypo-
critics or Pharisees.
1t was his disciples whom he forbade
praying on the street corners, entreatinR
them not do like the hypocrites and
pharisees who loved to pray standing
there.
"But when ye pray, enter into your clos
ct, and when yeihave shut he door, pray"
&c,
am glad Of this opportunity to en-
tighten the amiable but much deludcd
J. C. C., who has zeal, as / can bear
witness, but his zeal is not according 10
knowledge or to scripture. Don't pray
on the streets, says Christ 20 his follow
era, for hypocrites and pharisees love to
pray there, but when ys pray go into
the closet &c,
Now if the wayfaring man, though
fool, can't find by searching the scrip
lures that Christ opposed praying on the
street, and set numerous examples him
self Of secret praying, I don't think
il worth while to spend time TO make
any thing else out Of him only that
which he is and will be in spite Of Christ
and the Bible-a fool-a self righteous
fooI-who prefers "the record Of noble
praying women on the streets and the
good they there do" to the will Of God
or the sanctions Of his word.
If J. c. c. go prefers, advise him 10