The Princeton union., 1900-05-03
Wine.

The passing by the Minneapolis
city council of the ordinance
against wine room attachments to
saloons is a distinct moral victory,
says the Midland.
When the people say 60, the
saloon and all it's attachments will
60. The W. G. T. Z. object to
the use of wine at the communion
table. Why discard wine from
our own table and home and place
it as temptation to weaker
brother at the Lords table!
The national superintendent of
this department says, 1.-The use of
alcoholic wine at the communion
rests entirely upon an assumption.
The word wine or it's representa-
tive, is not used by any of the
sacred writer's in connection with
the Lords supper. Nine times
this is alluded to in the new testa-
ment, and each time it is simply
called ''the cup" Our savior's
own descriptive term is, 1.-The fruit
of the vlnc," nor is it produced by
any living process; it is always
and everywhere, the fruit of de-
cay; the symbol of death not life.
The Lords supper was insti-
tuted at the passive feast, from
which every species of ferment
was vigorously excluded, hence
Christ could not have used fer
mented wine without breaking the
law he came to fulfill.
The fruit of the vine was made
by God, and is always good. The
Intoxicating wine is made by man,
and is bad. The bible makes
sharp discrimination between diff
ferent kinds of wine. One is
spoken of as the cause of woe and
violence, the other rs the cause of
comfort and peace. The use of
one is positively forbidden, prov.
XIII, 1882 Eph. V. 49, The
use Of the other is allowed, and
ranked with corn. The strong
contrast in language indicates un-
mistakably marked difference in
the things to which 1t is applied.
History, both sacred and profane,
sustains this position by proving
that in Bible lands. and in Bible
times, two kinds of wine were in
use. ''Lead US not into tempta-
tation," is Christ's own model for
our prayers. No fact is better at
tested than that many have been
tempted to their destruction by
wine offered rs the emblem of
Christ's redeeming blood. Dare
we, as Christians, lay such stun
bling block in the way of even the
weakest one for whom Christ died!
Our local superintendent has
satisfied herself as to the number
of churches using unfermented
wine and circulated good litera
ture. We hope to be able to re.
port no wine used at communion
in all churches. The pure grape
juice can be kept by canning hot
as fruit is canned.
The church should stand at the
head of the temperance movement.
Bishops may issue calls for prayer
and fasting that the church be
blessed by more converts, but Goo
turns deaf ear to such prayer
while the majority of his professec
followers pray lead us not into
temptation the whole year through
{ and then vote for temptation to bt
; put in the way of every schoo
boy, every weak, faltering one
who walks the streets.
Nearly fourteen million vote.
= were cast in the presidential cleo
tion of 1896. There are 2OO,OO(
t saloons in this country. Suppos'
each saloon controls ten votes
There are about four millio,
church voters, practically twice
l the number of saloon voters
Surely the time has come tha
-, Judgment must begin at the hous'
+ + of God, when his people allow tn
liquor traffic to exist in this 81