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ccmbcr, and they all got drunk to-
gcther for a week, and il is largely
perpctuated to this day, by
Christian people, though in a most
inappropriate manner.
You will therefore find in the
New Testament that st. Paul
-alludcs to Christian people in his
day, who used the occasion of OBJ
serving the sacrament known ~
"the Lords Supper" as one upon
which to get drunk, and the Chri,-
tians who did this were those who
had been converted from among
the hcathcn or the Gcntilcs.
Just as Paul wrote against the
impropricty Of these converts from
the Gcntilcs bringing into the new
church the pcculiartics Of their old
religions, so does he frequently
write against the disposition of the
converts from among the Jewish to
bring into the new church the pccu-
liar rites and ceremonies of the
former Jewish religion.
But those Christians persisted in
doing that, and therefore until this
day, we have handed down the
censcr and the candles and the
altar and the vesturc that were
used in the Jewish service, and
which the converts to Christianity
from Judaism insisted on blending
with the simpler form of worship
introduced by Jesus.
AS will be seen in reading the
New Testament. it seemed difficnlt
for Peter so to divcst himself of
his scctariam prejudice for the Jews
as to enter heartily into the idea
that the new religion was for the
Gentiles as well as for the Jews.
But Paul considered that his own
special duty was to preach the new
religion to the Gentiles; so he
started out as a missionary and
came as far west as italy.
Peter and Paul did not exactly
agree as to some of the minor de-
tails of the church ceremonies, and
Paul "withstood' Peter and there
was division among them, Paul
says, and "some We're for Paul and
some for Apollos and some for
Cephas,' or Peter, and the division
has continued until this day, the
Catholics branch of the church
transmitting the prejudice of Peter
for the Jewish forms, and the
simpler forms of worship that Paul
advocated being more nearly repre-
scented bytle As6fe III StS6} 81
.st-t%s4-.ia
These two grand divisions of
Christianity are equally Jealous to
promote the moral purity of their
common Master, and more than
ever in the history of Christianity
are intelligent people of all shades
of opinion in other respects, agreed
upon the one pivotal fact of the
Christian relig ZION that doing good
to Others is the way to promote our
own happiness.
The best and purest thinkers in
the Catholic and Protestant faiths
are earnestly agreed in the one
common idea that the liquor traffic
is the greatest source of human
misery and the greatest bar to the
ulterior purposes of advancement
that they have to encounter and
these representative men from these
two great religious bodies all
agree that Prohibition is the most
effectual means of overcoming this
evil.
1t is therefore to the interest of
the Prohibition party, that all pos
sible concessions be made between
Protestants and Catholics who are
working for the common end OF
Prohibition, and in order that thi.
may most easily he done it should
be the policy Of all Prohibition
speakers and writers, whether
Catholic or Protestant, to show
that the difference in these religious
bodies in matters of form may bt
accounted for ON principles that are
entirely crcditable to both parties
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