WINE AT WEDDINGS
TO. THE EDITOR. Sir, —Permit me to say a -word in reply to your correspondent “X” with reference to the use of wine at weddings. Is he aware of the fact that in Scripture two wines are mentioned/ the pure juice of the grape which was the customary beverage of the people, and the fermented wine against which there ,are so many warnings? Would Christ, Who came to fulfil God’s Word, act in direct opposition to that Word? If at this wedding feast the guests had well drunk of fermented wine—- “ Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse; but thou hast kept the good wine until now.” (John ii, 10)—would Christ make them debauched by giving them more? The wine was called “good” because it was newly made and therefore unfermented. —I am, etc., Lilian Ritchie, Secretary of the Young People’s Branch, Roslyn, June 13. W.C.T.U.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21361, 15 June 1931, Page 10
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