COMMUNION AND INFECTION
TO TRI WtTCB.
Sir,—ln these modern dayi, When there I ia danger of infection from various diseases, would it not be well for the clergy to ask each comtnnnicant to bring a Email vessel for receiving the wine .in instead of partaking directly from the chalice? A stttall egg-cup would do un- j til a supply could be procured, and they might be of the same pattern in a Congregation. Then the minister could give a spoonfnl of the wine fwm the chalice into each cup instead •of giving the chalice to sip from. A deacon or jny reader would follow with water to poor into each emptied cup. This being drnnk by tho communicant woald remove all that is left of tho wine in the cup. In some churches they have a number of ! little cups with consecrates! wine in, and the officiating minister gives one to each communicant, but this causes a great deal of tronblo and time, and is not so distinctly a partaking oi the one cup. I think that the plan I suggest would be much .boiler.-—I a.vi. ';tc, 25th NDvembar, ViW. ■ '
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1918, Page 2
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190COMMUNION AND INFECTION Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1918, Page 2
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