The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-06-08
Cor, ,nunlop, wine.


10 uOtlCc Il moment. lHCrc Is Il CHS
who b slievc there is just one kind ol
wine, and that a fcrmented or ALEC.
| holic drink that will make drunk
come, that this is the only wine men
toned in the Bible, anu that conse-
qucntly, we must use this alcoholic
stimulant for communion purposes
There is also, class who believe that
there are two kinds of wine, one fer
mented, the ether unfermcnted. They
claim that grape juice is rightly call
ed wine Just as it flows from the press,
and even while it is yet in the grape
and that therefore, there arc two
kinds of wine spoken Of i'll the Bible.
We believe that this latter idea il,
correct and that all churches should
use only unfermentcd wine for COM
munion purposes. We cannot under
stand how an article that is Unfit fol
christians to use ordinarially because
of the mischief it does, and against
which we are solemnly warned in the
word of God, can be the right thing
to use in the house of the Lord in
memory of his lying love to man.
We think the term VINE is gcacr
ic like the term drink as used in lab.
2-15 and Rom. 12-20 and like the
term cider az used in general. You
grind your apples and press out the
Juice and while it is fresh and sweet
,ou call it cider; then after it fer
Inents and bcomes alcoholic SO it will
make one drunk if he swallows it
freely, you call it cider, and we think
the term wine is in like manner, APP
pIicablc to the juice of the grape both
in it's fcrmcnted and unfermented
states. Now let us see if this idea
will bear the light of Coils truth,
md since it is admitted by all that
fact. But if we can show that grape
juice is rightly called wine while iii
a state in which it is impossible for
it to be fcrlncntcd, then it must be
admitted that we have made the cor
rect application Of the term wine
and also that there arc two kinds oi
wine to-wit: the fcrmcntcI and III
fcrmcntcd. Now to the law and ties
timony,onc divine writer says: The
new vile is found in the cluster" Will
any man affirm that juice is
fcrmentc,l before it is pressed from
the grape? If there be such this
communication is not designed for
them.
Again we read, Thy presses shall
burst forth with new wine. Is
grapc-jricc filled with alcohol pro-
luccd by fermentation just as it flows
from the press or while it is yet in the
cluster? If not, then these scriptures
in connection with what is uniyer-
sally admitted, prove clearly that
there are two kinds of wine
mentioned in the Bible. one lcr,neHt-
ed and alcoholic, and against which
we are warned in many places in tic
scriptures, the other unGcrmcntes,
sweet and harmless, and the use Of
which is highly recommended iii the
word of God. But aside from al
this, if there is just one kind Of wine
known to the human family, just one
kind spoken of in the Bible, and that
the fcrmented kind that will make
drunk come, then it does not follow
that it is at all necessary to use this
alcoholic wine for communion pur-
poses, it does not follow that it is even
right in the sight Of God to thus use
it, and why? because Jesus did not
tell us to use wine for communion.
| Vine is not once mentioned in con-
nection with the institution or the
observance Of the Lords supper. But
that which Jesus gave his disciples
in "the cup" and commanded them
to drink in remembrance of him.
he called "thc fruit Of the vine" and
that "the fruit of the vine" is that
which the vine naturally produces,
no sane man will deny. and that the
wine has any capacity to produce an
alcoholic substance, no man who
knows B. from brandy will affirm
You may search every plant in the
I great botanic kingdom Of earth from
| the tallest tree down to the tiniest
spirc of grass, and you will not find
so much as one grain of alcohol pro-
,luced by natures growth. Alcohol
is generated by process exactly the
reverse of that by which all vegcta-
ton is brought to perfection. The
latter is produced by a process OF
composition while the former is gen
Grated by process Of decomposition
w. l.. JESSIE.
CLEVELAND, VA, June 6, 1898
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