Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

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[1874?]
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Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    90 excluded by preserving it in vacuo, is so much improved in taste and flavour by being kept even a month or two unopened, that I should not suppose it to be the same article did I not know it. What effect will be produced by keeping it for years is a problem which time will solve. At any rate, this text can no longer be regarded as having any special application to intoxicating wines, and taken in conjunction with the text preceding it, can leave no rational doubt that the Saviour’s reference in this much-abused passage was to wine in its unfermented and boiled condition.” Knowing that such wine was in common use when our Lord was on earth, can we imagine that the wine He created at the marriage feast had in it the elements of corruption and decay? or that the wine He drank and blessed at the Passover, when He instituted the Lord’s Supper, was any other than what He there called it, “ this fruit of the vine,” not that in which the nutritive and life-sustaining qualities of the fruit were changed for elements productive of destruction to body and soul. But I have yet to notice the fact that in the present day the Jews, in obedience to the command that no leaven was to be within their houses at the time of the celebration of the Passover, carefully search for and put away all fermented things. Leaven with them includes all decaying, corrupting, and fermenting matter. I saw last year one who had been for some years in service in a Jewish family. She gave a very interesting description of this careful search, and told us how the wine that they then drank at the Passover was made by boiling water being poured on dried grapes or raisins ; they would not have thought of using fermented wine. May we not rejoice that there is such clear proof that this pure refreshing juice, pressed out from the grapes, is the fruit given of God to man, the wine which our Lord commands us to use as the sign of His blood shed for our life. And if we have heard of or met with one instance of a poor saved drunkard being tempted, or, pei'haps, more than tempted, by the taste of alcohol at the Lord’s table, shall we not use our influence that the harmless healthful good fruit of the vine shall be used in place of the fermented ? There are some other words used occasionally in the Bible for wine, one “ ahsis,” sweet wine, used five times, connected
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