, 1874-04-23

Moan4, OF whom tho Blblo e6ye TINT thefo hroae
Aaron tho firat High rfost ovell tho oltlola, tho
most prominent mon in NIL 1srael- lid not totally
abstain from-tlrnklng Is 1t not high time
tint our male and fonlalc cruBadorB turn thoiE
ertillory npon Abraham, Isaac, JoHopl, Moaos1
'Soatch tho Scriptures, )" laliea and gontlou,of,,
uni you will aoon nud Out that-you hayo op-
pononta in thom.
Q. =" "Wonll tho nnbbt point to tho pNrtto-
nlar chapter and yorso which say TINT Jopns
drank winoP" It Is strange TINT d Jow should
Christian religion. II lilo Doctor will road Luke,
VII, 90, 84 Mutt, H., 10, le will potl,aps lind Z
oonfoasion by Jesus hifnaalf. But thts ls not not
enough. We must got aconantel with tho laws
we m,1Bt eonaidor that .Juaus abidoa by these
1aws md customs, aud, II wo do 80, We cannot
avoid concluding tlht JosuB praised the Heavenly
Father on tho beginning Of oaoh Babbatl, aud on
and that, in participating Of tho rasehal meals
from his boylood nip, lle drink Mt 1oast on tho
first night Of ovory Passover festival four onps Of
vino. For artch woro in His days und1spntod
lava, and thoy wore cOnHclontfouBly ObBoryed.
70 say thnt 1t is nowhere stated In tho Now
Testament that jesus did obsorvc those lava 10
poor argument. 1 do not lnow whothor 1t ls
anywhere reported In the Now Testament
that Jesus over kept the Day Of Atoncment. Yot
theroiB no ohristian aoholar who would infor ab
siiertio, that tho Day Of Atonement WAS tlia-
regarded by Josua. In regard to hla Inst suppor,
It ia e1proBsly statel TINT lo drank wine and
tint lo said that after this llo would drink no
moro wine-h1ntt, xvi, n, 40; Mark, xly., 23,
25 Luke. XIII, II, IL.
I. Dr.. MoChosney omphaBizcs tho question
whether accept tho account Of tho miracle in
Cana I accept this ncoouut Just az
much as Dr.. McO. accepts tho accounts Of the
miracles said to havo boon performed by Mo-
hatnod, or tho accounts OF tho miracles eaid to
ht HIN nm HnfrfH nf f1,p
Roman Catholic Church, or tho accounts OF tho
miracles reported to hnve been worked last yonr
by tho lo1y waters Of Sourdos, IN Franco. And
got quoted Cam. For I could show by this
tics thereby that On jewish twoddingsin the times
Of jesus formentsd wlne. WAS oonHu1ncd--ln
Cana they lad bocome j" vol drunk, ,"-and fur
thor, TINT In tho mind Of this author there was
not tho remotest thought Of disrospoct In sup-
posing JeB,B to layo produced and drunk vino.
8. Jesus participated in pasohal. snppors per-
haps thirty tfnos during his life. Tor chil1ron
even woro obliged to tako part In these auppcrs.
AS regards bis last supper, thero sre plain lnal-
oations that jesus thon observed many Of tho
tue dipping OF the bitter horb into the Charosesh
Is alluded to-A1atthow, xvi, 20; John, Kill,
&c. And how could tho four oupB, 90 strongly
commanded and 80 aorupulously obsorvod by tue
Jews In those times, hayo bocu dlsregardod
Evon tho poor ones, who Ind to ho supported by
cups Of vino for every person in tho family
(Afshnah Peaaohim, T., y, So we're tho women
and children obligated to drink Of tho four cupH
(Posachlm, 1o8, b. And q poraon who
lad natural disliking to vino, had
to overcome his dlsliling on Passah Evo,
Rabbi Johudah bar Ilai, who lived in Paloatlna
in the middle Of tho second century, said to an
intorrogator. "BoIioyo me that / never tasto
VINO but for Eidd,tsh or tho commencement OF
Sabbath, for Ha1datah on tho closo OF Sabbath,
and for tho four cupB on PaaBahy aud then my
hoal aches from Passover to P9ntecost {Noda-
rim, 40, b). For all these religious mud aami-re.
lgious ocoaaiona formontod vino (ynuin chai)
mixed With water had to be used (unmlxcd wine
was too strcng), and only when formonted wine
was not to be lad, unformonted vino was al
lowed. 600 Borathoth, 81, Da bn Dathrn 90, 08,
etc. Now, should think that tho Talmud and
tho jewish Rabbis in the t!mos when Christi.
anlty originated ought to hhve known Bome-
thing about their own lavs and usagcs.
In order that 1t may not bo gatnaaid that those
laws and uHagoB woro OF n postapoBtolio origin,
will Atata tho fant TINT tho schools OF Bhanlai
and Of Hillol, which originntod in tho oontury
preceding Christ, had discussed tho questions
about tho quality Of vino to be used, otc., aud
In their timcs laws in this regard wero quoted
which, in consequence OF their anonymity, must
date back to very remote antiquity
Although much moro might bo said On the
wine question IN the Bible aud In tho days ol
Jesus, yet tho above may bo sufficient for the
present. Respectfully B. FELsENTuAL.
CHICAGO, April 20, 1874.