Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-08
WINE AT THE COMMUNION,


The Question OF Non-Intoxicants.
To the Editor of The Evening Star:
My fad is the early discovery Of America and
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'ne.e NO uouo' An any sane OF wen-pa'Ahceo
anu "ei-lnIormeo mind tnRt Lle1 Ericsson
came to America in the year 1000 in a very
much finer and more stately vessel than the
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said Ericsson built the earthworks Prof. Hos
ford has 80 plainly pointed out on the banks of
the Charles river near Cambridpe Mass and
that the Old Mill. Nevport. was their handi-
work also. But when I come across any other
mans fad simnlv smile at the tbonUbt that
reasonable nersons can be So eas,,v ,mnosed
upon or snend their time so ,oolishIy
For instance can understand how after the
temperance reform got well under way deyout
and sim nile minded persons might have Oh
iected to the use of wine at the sacrament and
wished for a non-intoxicant. and how that dis
tinpuished CONGREGATIONAL divine. Prof, Moses
Stnart Of Andover Tboooyicai Seminary
should have said in his celebrated sermon de
liyered more than a fty wears ago that he wisbed
there was proof that the Iord's simmer had
been instituted with mountaineering wines or
words TO that effect. But I cannot understand
why those hopes and that ejaculatory utterance
sbould have been formulated into n sort of
creed or that Rev DR. Georue w S.mnson
sbonId bava triad IN nrove IL "a . fact that the
ORIGINAL sacramental vine was Observation-Disclosures
II Is true that DR. Samnson's fine snun theories
and assertions. as embodied in his massive
volume have since been so comnletelv refuted
that his book or his arpuments have no Mace
with scholars. but the fad is somehow a taking
one and has become very prevalent in these
latter dava
This reminds me that in the town where re-
sided several wears AGO some very zealous ladies'
made an earnest move to have the ordinary
wine displaced from sacramental use. In their
efforts thew addressed a circular TO the min
isters of NIL DENOMINATIONS and excentinp
from the Episcopal clergymen a general re-
sponse was had that only non-intoxicatinc wine
,yas used. from the Fnisconal clerpvmen onIv
n few RESPONSES were had ONE was ,uhstan.
tiaIly To the effect that the indies had hest he
engaged in some really serious business. and
another 10 the effect that the Rihie Man was
GOOD epnob for him and that ali really
Christian people vould use wine I hence sun-
nose that in tho Fnisconal churches the Iord's
e.amnle ia followed
do not know what is really meant nv "non-
Intoxicating" wine. In a section nj the north
where 1 lived for some wears a solution of
raisins and raisin stems soaked in water and
sweetened was for wear, nsed In a citv where
I spent some wears n deyout Woman wife of n
Netbod,st minister used TO nut mn every folI in
glass vessels n large nmonnt Of freshly ex
pressed crane Juice and at once seal mn these
vessels 40 that the contents yvould hold their
Integrity for years This mice was used M her
husbands church and not infreouentlv the
good lady gave il to other clerpymen for use at
their sacramentsl occasions
Once in INV travels I cnl,eo n, n deacon NJ
n Coneroga,ional cbnrcb aud on ;noni.v oster
his wife learned that she had been yerv danger
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