The Trm Commanion Wine

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 149, 27 May 1886, Page 4

The Trm Commanion Wine

The stitomont niado concerning the «ine useii.ai the La«fc Supper of the SaTinar with His tlecipies, which is given Itofow, ha< l»e«n substantiated by one of ihi'lf.-uliii^ vaiitns-tf New York. Tlie sidTi>»*ftte»of tenii'fi'uuci 1 who are churchraeucin. with this knowle^RP, help to abolish tlu> ienu>i;ili us ■if th <• communion table. '1 !i«' f.'i'nr of the Vle(ltodi>t Times who j fritnpssrd. the celebration of the Jewish I*ji>s. n-r in that cily. ;it the close of tlie KTvifes sniii to the rabbi. "May I ask fiihwlmt kind <>f ni"«? jo i have cele luaied the I'assover this eveiiiojj?" The answer' pr»inp?/ airvu was :— " With a ji <n intofciestinjj wine. Jews never use j f. rmented wine in their synagogue services, and must not use it on tlie Passover, eith* r f&v synng-'Kne or home pur* , l'>ses. Fern>fnted liquor oF any kind Totntfs- tinder the catesjory of * leaven,' nitich is "proscribed in so many wellJrnoxrn" plnfcs in the Old .TestamonL Tlie ' 'winp which is used by tae Jews daring th« week of ihe Pnssover is suj>)ilied to the community by those licensed ny the cfr'ief rabbi's board, and by thoso Diily; Each bottle is sealed in the presence of a representative of the ecclesiastical authorities. The bottle standing jonder on the sideboard, from which the wine used toßDtghl was taken, was thus sealed. I mny also mention that poor Jewswhb cannot afford to buy this wine/ wake an unfermented wine of their own 1 , •which ja nothing else but an infusion^ pi Vjilenwayor Muscatel raisins. I hare, read' the passage in Mathew in which the Paschal Supper is described. There can he-no doubt whatever that the wine used upon that occasion was unfermented.j Jesus, as an observant Jew, would riot r only net have drunk fermented wine on the Passover, but would not haTe ce.ler brated ilie Passover m any house frbin ; which. everything fermented had not been removed;." I may mention that the wine I use' ?h the service at the synagogue is an infusion of raisins. You will allow J me^perhaps, to exptess my; surprise that' Christians, who profess to be follower^ of Jesus of JS'azareth, can take what'tfe c«.vild not. have possibly, havp taken as a Jew I—intoxicating1 — intoxicating "wine- -at so sacred a service as the sacrament' of the Lord's Supper."— Kew York Herald.