UNFERMENTED WINE.

White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 May 1895, Page 6

UNFERMENTED WINE.

I am sorry there is so little to tell regarding my department of work for the past year. In our district (Hawke’s Bay), considerable cultivation of the vine is carried on at the K.C. Mission Station, but the wine made contains alcohol. I wrote to Father Brinsfield, who has charge of the vines, &c., asking it he could not 1 make unfermented wine ? He wrote me saying he would most gladly do so, but, being ignorant of the process, would thankfully avail himself of the services of a capable man who thoroughly understood the business, and would do his best to influence the winegrowers in the district. Having written to Messrs. Wright, Munday & Co. on the subject, their answer is rather disappointing, but perhaps someone may be found in Australia or New Zealand to overcome the difficulty. From the above firm I have received copies of their circulars, &c., and am full of gratitude to God to see the numbers of the Christian Churches in Britain which have for many years past used unfermented wine at the Communion. I heir report is for 1887, and no doubt hundreds more might now r be added. By last number of “ Woman s Signal,” I see most encouraging meetings are being held all over Scotland by Kev. John Pyper on this very subject. Our union may remember authorising me to get printed a number of copies of a paragraph from the pen of Kev. Charles Garrett, on the use of Unfermented Wine for Sacramental purposes, which was done, and a copy sent to every Episcopal and Presbyterian minister in New Zealand, as they seem in this matter farther behind the times than any of the other Christion Churches. I have had many interesting and cncougaging answers from the latter body, and am thankful to find it in more general use than I had imagined. Believing and knowing that Mr. Garrett’s words

had done good among us, I wrote telling him so, and thanking him with all my heart for his lifelong labours in the temperance cause. Agnes Bigg;