Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-10-25
WINE AT THE COMMUNION.

The use Of wine at the communion table
is one Of the phases of the temperance queS-
ton now agitated by the advocates of total
abstinence. 1t has brought up the much
discussed topic Of the kind of wine which is
mentioned in the New Testament as usual
when the miracle at the wedding of Cana
was performed and the last supper was cele-
brated. There is Il marked division OF
opinion on this point among Protestant the
ologians, some maintaining that it was the
unfermented juice Of the grape others be-
lieving 10 to be actual Intoxicating wine.
If it was unfermented juice, the duty Of
all Christians who believe that the example
of the founder of that religion should be lit
orally followed isvery clear. Unfermented
wine is, under those circumstances, clearly
the sort to be set out upon the communion
table. But to those who are convinced that
the wine was not some harmless beverage,
but the article which everybody recognizes
as Wine-alcOhOlic and more or less Stimula-
ting-their duty is by no means simple
There comes a conflict between their obliga-
tions to follow the example of Christ and
their total abstinence principles.
The Methodist church has recognized the
difficulty by prescribing untermented wines
at the Lords supper, whenever practicable.
This, however, by allowing discretion in the
DlaIlGr uOCS llOp Sclllc IL. 1llC w oiliSll
Christian Temperance Union has taken up
the subject and made some Investigations.
So far as has been ascertained, while many
churches use unfermented juice, there are
still large numbers who use wine.
One of the objections to its use is the dam
ger that it may excite the appetite for drink
in some one who can only subdue his appe-
tite by never tasting liquor; but it is the
general testimony of clergyman SO far as
they have been asked that while there is, of
course, danger of this result they have new
er known any such instances. In England,
however, Archdeacon JellricS declares that
the danger is real, and DR.. Richardson, the
great English authority on alcoholic absti-
not accept the communion for fear of falling
back into ways from which they have been
rescued.
One temperance tract on the subject says:
"What men acknowledge will kill the body
is still used as Il fit emblem Of that which
giveth life to the soul" "What they con-
slider too vileand dangerous to have on their
own tables they place upon the table Of the
Lord" at sends the Office bearers of the
Christian church to the rum shop"
The position taken by many of the church
people is that even if the beverage of the
New Testament was wine that intoNicates,
IL Is DeCCeT LOT people WlO DcllcFt III loldl
abstinence to totally abstain.-DetrOH Free
Press.
ANIMALcULEs IN VINEGAR.-All vine
gar is liable to have something that may be
called animalcules in it; because it is pro-
duct of fermentation, and as made from ci-
der, has more or less Of gum, gluten, ETC., in
it, which breed the minuter organisms dur
ing fermentation. If these substances last
tive fermentation is liable to ensue and the
vinegar lose its acidity and become spoiled.
TO prevent this the vinegar may be boiled
soon after it is made, having been previous
ly "drawn OFF, from the settings, and then
bottled. This will getrid of the heanimalcules
and preserve the vinegar. Another meth
cd, authorized by law in England, is to add
one thousandth part Of sulphuric acid to the
newly made vinegar. This checks any fur
ther fermentation, and the very small guam
tity of sulphuric acid is not considered
hn fin