The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-25

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Scriptures If this had been s sinful
drink ? But it is not to be taken in an
categorical sense, for We resd every
where in the Bible that Christ was fEe-
ouently invited to festivals and BAN
ouets by the rich men of the country in
which he liyed, aud psrtook Of their
hospitality. st these bsuque!s wine
was never missing, and Jesus psrtook
OF the same without hesitation.
Does it not appear from our text that
Jesus was addicted to the indulgence
Of wineP Did he not say 10 John the
Baptist, The Son OF Man eats and
drinks?
Anv attentive reader OF The New Tes-
lament must know that wine was the
usual beverage OF Jesus, and that he
animated others to drink, and so il we
are to believe these praying sisters, and
hypocritical women, he not only siuned
himself but melted others to sin. Ac-
cording to them they are holier than
the Savior, for he said that be drank
wine, for which reason lis enemies
called him a wine-0ibber. lie also
used vine at communion-a sinful
drink at q holy ceremony. They cay,
indeed, that the wine was unfermented
but such was not the case, for the unS
Term euted juice of the grape is not wine
and spoils in day or two. They have
also said it was cider, but the people
tha at imagine that must not be well yers-
ed in the Scriptures, for Jesus him
self calls it the product OF the vine. In
this manner they make sinner OF
Jesus himself. and want 10 be holier
and more perfect than the Savior. Can
we be Blamed If VIC follow his exam
pie?
Secondly, they overthrow by their
action Christian liberty. In the same
manner in which we are forbidden to
drink now, the Jews were forbidden to
eat certain kinds OF food. These pro-.
hibitIons were not observed in ChristiS
anity, for Jesue declared that not what
entered into mans mouth made him
impure. but what was emitted from the
same. You know yourselves. my.iriends,
how many species OF food were forbid
den to the Jews. The meat Of many
animals was unclesn to them, aud 1t
vus deemed o sin to eat from the same.
In the first periods OF Christianity the
most pious, or rather the Jewish Chris.
tisus, attempted TO maintain these pro-
hlbitions OF the Old Testament, But
they soon met with opposition at the
hands OF the former GentileF, who bad
adopted Christianity,
Violent discussion ensued in regard
! to this question. which had at last TO be
decided by the Apostlee These as
eembled in Jerusalem ard resolved, af-
ter mature deliberation, to cast Of the
yoke which had go long rested on the
Jews. Ooly Tor former Jews who had
been raised up in reverence to the old
law, aud who looked upon the par
tskin. OF uuC!ean food as a SID, the
provisions OF the old law remained in
force. After some time, however, when
the difference between ChristiauR, de-
sceudiDg from Gentilss aud Jews, be-
gan TO disappear, the difference in food
also disappeared.
But coon o new question arose. Some
very Jealous Christians were ia doubt
as 10 whether it was a sln TO eat ih'
meat Of sacrifc0d animals or not. In
the countries OF TIE Gentiles where they
frequently lived in amiable intercourse
with the Gentiles, TO wbogc idols living
animals were sacrificed, only such
parts o. the animals were burned
az were not ct Tor human lood. Those
parts that were not burned, were either
eaten ct merry banqucts or sold in the
markc. like other meat In order TO
decide this question, the disputauts ap-
pealci to the Apostle Paul, who decid =
I'd the same in his epistle to the
Romans. He left it 10 their conscience
, 10 act as they cav fit. Whoever deem
cl il a sin 10 eat OF neat, to him il
should be o sin; but whoever deemed
| it not a sin, for him it should not be
sin. lie wrote as followsr Romans xiv
| 3. 6, II;
Let not h:m that calcth despse
! him that cateth not and let not him
which eateth not, judge him that
eate,h for God hath received him
"Hc that eateth, catcth unto the
Lord, for he giYeth God thsuks and
! he that eateth, to the Lord be eateLh
not, aud giveth God thanks.
u know, and am persuaded by the
I Lord Jesus that there ia nothing un'
/ clean OF itself, but TO him that esteemeth
anything to be unCleaD to him it is ur'
clean
Now. place ina.eaj Of eating drink
/ ing" and YOU have the opinion Of the
I Apostle on the whole move
meDt Every one ought TO sct
( according TO his conscience for who
ever deems it q sin to drink TO hin
/ it IS sip, and whoever does not deem
. II sin to drink, for him it is not sin
, That the Apostle did not only NEAR
eating. but also drinking. is undoubta-
DC. as we can see from his fret EpiStl'
10 the Corinthians in which he says
1 Corinthians, ix A." Have We no
POWER to eat and driDk?'
He demands thereby Christian lIbeI
les for the faithful, while on the COZ
;rary our modern temperance apostle:
attempt to press US again into the oil
woke, which Christ and his Apostle
io1k Tor us But IL that what thes
people want iy uuchristiau, the name
n which they attempt to attain it /
sull more so. They are dragging some
thing holy into the dust, and hold /
up TO the sneers OF the world
Is there something more holy thai
- prayer, when man is Standing beior
- nis God, when in moments o! wesknes
: and anguish he calls to him Tor bell
. vixen the poor, crushed soul soaEs u
10 the Creator to fad there comfort ant
balsam for its vcuods; when mao !
: conscious OF al his isilings AMI bow
down in reverence 10 Almighty GOt