Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-05
PURE GRAPE JUG 6
Movement to Urge Its Use at Com
munion.
What Progress Has Been Made by tn,
idea Say 1t Is Gaining Ground.

The movement to substitute unfermented
wine at communion for the beverage COM
monty used has many earnest supporters
in Washington. The Womens Christian
Temperance Union includes this movement
in its organization of temperance work, and
in Yearly all the large cities there are
women who make it their special duty to
acquaint pastors and church officials with
the true character Of the wine generally
used, to emphasize the danger that, in their
view of the matter. turks within the COM
munion cup, and urge them to procure the
pure unfermented juice of the grape and
offer, that instead of the other. In Wash
irgton Mrs Emma E. Falconer is the I'M
fermented wine superintendent under the
w. c. I. L. In an interview with a Star
reporter, Mrs. Falconer says she can report
progress, although the movement encoun-
tiers a prejudice that is seemingly CONT
rents wide and mountains high.
What Has Been Done.
1T is hard" said Mrs. Falconer, ito get
at actual facts in this work, we meet with
SO much opposition. Some of the Presby-
terrain pastors of this city do not sanction
the use of unfermented wine at the Lords
table, while the PresbyterianS at Pittsburg
indorse the use of the unfermented wine l
do not understand the opposition by the
pastors of that denomination here. In
speaking with the Catholics 1 find that
many approve of it, but l do not know
whether they go any further than to APP
prove or not. l think all of the Episco-
paliars use the fermented wines, and some
of the Lutheran, Southern Methodist, Con-
gregational Colored Methodist, Baptist and
Methodist Protestant churches are with us.
There are about seventy churches here that
adhere to the use of the fermented wines,
while about fifty use unfermented grape
Methodist Episcopal, Congregationalist.
Christian and Baptist churches. The Uni
versa1stS use water.
4 have been very courteously received
when visiting in behalf of our work. but
find a lack of cooperation in some Of our
unions, and in other instances 1 am met
with Indifference on the part Of ministers
few see the expedency at once of using
the pure grape juice-the unfermented wine
Others seem to believe that the fermented
wine was the kind that was used in our
SaviorS time
In the Original.
1--WE think" said Mrs. Falconer, that
Christ undoubtedly used unfermented wine.
for He said in presenting the contents of
the cup to His disciples, the fruit of the
vine We have evidence that there were
two kinds of wine used in His time, and
We cannot for a moment think He gave
His disciples the bad instead of the good
wine at His last supper with them"
what Is the object of this discussion of
the no wines at the Lords supper?
Men have been known to ACQUIRE the
taste for alcohol in taking the sacrament,
and l know of one instance where a man
seized the cup, drank the contents. and
went. in spite of all remonstrance, to his
everlasting ruin. And from a mothers
standpoint would feel terribly to know
that my son learned to love the taste of
wine at the communion table. The word
wine IS not used by any of the sacred
writers in connection with the Lords sup
per. 1t is simply called the cup when re-
ferred to-
How 1t Began Here.
Mr.. Appleton Clark, who has been active
In this reform, when asked to give some
account Of the beginning of the movement
against the use of fermented wine at COM
munion, said: 1T was first agitated here in
Washington by Mr.. F. NJ Bradden and his
wife. l. myself, introduced 1t into my own
church when DR.. Chester was pastor, about
twelve years ago. The bishops of some of
the churches denounce the use of infer
mented wine, and this is the reason the
Individual churches cannot use it. Mr.
Powers church was the first to use it here
Almost all of the evangelical churches use
the unfermented wine"