The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-09-07
COMMUNICATIONS.
Communication No. s.

COMMUNICATIONS.
Communication No. 8.
SECOND SERIES.
Editor of PIONEER ExrREss.
In communication No. of this series
promised that by quotations from the
writings of men whose authority intclli.
gent Protestants would DC ashamed to
reject. would still further support the
theory that the Holy Bible does not re.
cognize more than one kind of wine, viz:
the intoxicating; and that would poin,
out ia more excellent way" than that
now pursued by the Prohibitionist.
HOW fulfil these promises.
]. Howard Crosby, d. d., l.. L. D.. ex.
Chancellor Of the University of New
York and member of the late Anglo.
American Bible Revision Committee
says: "The third support of tho total
abstinence reform is the testimony Of
Scripture. And here, at the outset, i.
met a formidable difficulty. Any ordint
airy reader of the Bible saw at once that
wine drinking was not condemned but
sanctioned. Wine was put among Gods
blessed gifts to men, with corn and fruit
and flesh. Wine was drunk and made
by our great Excmpiar, and wine was
chosen by him to be constantly drunk to
the end of time by his disciples, in re-
membrane of him. This was mos
formidable obstacle indeed to the great
principle Of the temperance reform, but
it seems that human ingenuity can over
come anything to gain its ends. Righ,
in the face Of all history, of all plilology
all science and all hcrmeneutics, the
doctrine was unblusllingly preached thai
the wine of Scripture was not fermented
and unalcoholic! The wine that formed
part of the epitllct hurled at our Saviour
wine bibbcr'; the wine of which deacon,
should not use much; the wine thai
made the Corlntllian Christians so in
toxicated that the Apostle exercised lii
official powers of castigation upon them
the wine that burst the skin bottles il
which it was kept; this wine of Scripture
was not fermented or alcoholic! 1t il
one of the mysterious problems of the
human mind that this bald absurdity
should be accepted quietly by Thousand.
Of respectable men and women" DR.
Crosby is q Presbyterian.
2 John Carry, DID,, after patient and
scholarly analysis of all the words in the
Hebrew that are rendered wine in Eng
lisll, says: 81 have now gone through
all the words in the Hebrew Bible which
weever translate wine They all clear
ly represent drinks which had intoxicat
ing properties, and which however bene
fetal, were capable of being abused t.
mans great injury" And after al
equally careful and skilful examinatio,
of the references made in the New Tes
lament to wine lie says: II have nov
gone over all the principal points of the
Temperance Bible Scripture argument
and let any honest and intelligent reader
judge if every contention of its dupet
has not been superabundantly confutcd.'
DR.. Carry is Epscopalan.
5 Sanford II. Cobb, DID, LID, says
sit is not necessary TO consider here the
attempt mad. to turn the position Of
Scriptural temperance by the modern in.
terpretation which supposes the Bible tc
make mention of two wines. 1t needs
but to be set aside for curiosity of ex.
egesis, rs grotesque as it is unsupported
by the vast preponderance of scholar.
ship and research. 1t stands true that
the Bible calls drunkenness a sin, bul
not drinking" DIR. Cobb is leading
Presbyterian divine.
Rev. j. r. Skies, after q most OK.
haustive examination Of every reference
to "wine" in the Old and New Tesla
ments, says: "Thus we see that the
different varieties of wine both of the
Old and New Tcstaments, from the days
of Noah 10 those of st. John, q period o
twenty-four hundred years, were intoxi
eating" The Rev. ]. II. Skies is one O
the first men in the German Luthera,
church.
s Alvah Havcy, DID,. president of tn,
Newton Baptist Theological Institution
says: allow easy and natural it is nov
for men who advocate the theory of twt
kinds of wine to distinguish them per
fectly! How impossible it appears t,
have been for the sacred writer's to d.
this How lclplessly they resort to til,
} same name, yayin, without cpithet o
qualification, when they speak of wine
either good or bad But the marvel dis
appears the Instant we are willing to &C
cept the plain fact that they knew of bu
one wine. the fermented Juice of tn
grape, though there were several varie
ties of this, as new and old, sweet an,
sour, red and spiced, but all supposed :
be harmless if used sparingly, and in
toxicating if used freely" DIR. Hovey
an educator Of ministers of the Gospel il
the Baptist church.
6 Professor Goodwin Smith, know
wherever standard English literature
read, says: "Indeed. fermentation is g
natural a process that, if its results wcr
J poison, it might almost seem trap sc
by the Author of Nature for his crea
lures"
The late Rev. A. a. Hodge, DID,,
Id, of the world renowned Princeton, i
his "Outlines of Theology" asks: "Wha
is the meaning of the term oinos, wine
> in the New Testament, and how does
/ appear that wine, and 10 other liquid
must be used in the Lords Supper?
Ans. at is evident, from the usage G
this word in tie New Testament, that
was designed by the sacred writer's I
designate the fermcnted juice of til
: grape" "Thc Roinisl church contends
on the authority oftradition, that waite
should be mingled with the wine. Blu
, this has not been commanded, nor is
involved in any way Ill the symbolica
signilicancy of the rite. That wine, ant
, nu other liquid, is to he used, is clea
from the record OF the institution, Natl,
26:2G-29, and from the usage of til,
apostles" In his Theological Themes
which is popular Treatment of the sub
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