The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-12-20
Sacramento Wine

English chuychmen are 10 ferment a:
to the use of fermented wine at the com
munion table. The bishop of Lincoln
having prohibited a clergyman 10 h
diocese from administering unfermenteC
wine at the altar, an ecclesiastical lawyer
OF distinction has been asked to give 81
opinion whether any law on canon of tht
church of England prescribes the com
munion to be administered in the ferment-
ed juice of the grape; also, whether sucl
use Of unfermented wine is breach of the
law Of the church if bishop has the
power to prohibit clergyman in bis
! diocese from so using it, and what PENALTY
a clergyman would incur by disregarding
such prohibition. 1t is stated in reply that
there is no definition of the wine in the
prayer book; that though, obviously, the
juice OF the grape is meant there is nothing
/ TO show that it ought to be fermeutsd that
! 1t appears that the pure juice of the grape
! was often used by the Jews in the time of
/ Christ, and that, while the canon orders
that wine shall be used, there is no definition
/ of the meaning of the term wine. Unless,
therefore, it should be legally determined
that v inc means the fermented juice of the
grape, it is q misuse Of authority for a
bishop to forbid the use of the pure juice
of the grape. This is the opinion of an
expert in ecclesiastical law, and the En-
glish temperance societies mean to seek a
judicial decision to the same effect"
The amount of obsurdity tie Bible
would be committed to if fanatics of al.
shades aad A.nds gould have their way is
simply enormous, this particular farment
being only one OF thousand kindie ed dis
tortionS of the truth, without either sense
or tradition to give them color. All
the Bible we find the use of gine
alluded 10 and its excessive use called bv
its right name, drunkenness, which shows |
conclusiyely that it was fermented, and it
is reasonable to conclude that had there ,
been common use of the juice in its sweet /
state, there would have been distinction !
made 10y name as it could not certainly be !
called the same. We say nothing CT the
fact that the sacrament vas intended not
oniy for those countries where cranes
abound and the sweet juice possible but
also for all the world, which is net uniform
" so blessed, or curse as ideas differ.
At the marriage feast of Cana, water
was turned into wine, and the Governor Of
the feast said, as he tasted it, not knowing
what had been done, Thou has kept the
good wine until now which he never would
have said had it not been fermanted, for
# it had been the custom to use the sweet
uice of the grape it would have been all
like, none better none worse.
In fact the juice of the crane or any
'ther fruit 10 an unfermented state is hot
vine at all, it is simply jnice There is
avs the above quoted writer, mo de- |
milton of the term wine in the PRAYER
'ook Naturally not, the PRAYER book being
ompiled by Englishmen for EngHshman- it :
Ias not thought necessary TO turn the book !
ITO a dictionary for meddling idiots. I. s
oes not define the meaning Of other words n
much more importance than this one; y
ut IS Yet no one has been found sufficient e
thick headed to ask il repentance might r.
Ct mean Jewish national dance iusteud