SACRAMENTAL WINES

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 17, Issue 60, 31 July 1906, Page 8

SACRAMENTAL WINES

One of the most important and difficult 1 nest ions which confront the Church is that if the use of wine at the Lord’s supper, lumbers of clergymen have, in odedience to heir convictions, introduced into this rite, in heir own churches, the use of non-intojdca* ion instead of intoxicating wine. We have iecn told that the Bishop of London grants ibsolute freedom to the clergy of hisdiocesa is to the character of the wine used in the. rloly Communion. Thus the representative ndy of the Church of England, though de-u-ecating agitation on the subject of the use >f unfermented wine does not positively conlemn it. This is a significant step, because, his issue once having become debateable, here can be no doubt as to its ultimate settlement. Both intoxicating” and _ unfermented vvines were used by the Jews in the time ol Christ, but we possess no knowledge whether the wine used by Jesus at the Last Supper was intoxicating or unfermented. The best ilebrew authorities, living and past, either egard intoxicating or unfermented wines as 'qually lawful in Tasso,ver, or lean in the lirection of the unfermented wine, inasmuch i.s fermented (leavened) food was forbidden at ’assover. Therefore, either complete liberty •s to the use of intoxicating or unfermented vines at-the Lord’s Supper must be granted,. •x, to be consistent, the use ofwineatallmusi >e abandoned. But aside from the question n the nature of wine used by Jesus, modern iiscoveries as to the nature and effects o: ilcohol leave but one alternative in the use ol vine toany conscientious clergyman. ROCKY MOUNTAIN KATE. For ten years one of the peculiar charac.ers found in Leadville was Rocky Mountain Kate. No one seems to know her name, and if she ever gave people to understand that she oossessed any other name thjk, Rocky Mounisin Kate they have long since forgotten it fiockv Mountain Kate is sometimes called Puss in Boots, because she incases hei pedal extremities in cowhide boots many sizes too large for her. She has amassed a fortune, and her rents in Leadville alone bring her an income of one thousand dollars per month, besides a large amount of real estate in Denver, which is of great value. She is very frugal, indeed miserly, in her manner of living ; she seldom buys any food or clothing, but her meals are the remains from the tables of her neighbours, and her clothing the cast-off garments of charitable -Leadville ladies.

Rocky Mountain Kate's occupation is working by the day—house-cleaning and the like—and it is needless to say that her already large fortune is not decreasing. The report at present in Leadville is that Rocky Mountain Kate contemplates perpetuating her name by using her fortune to build a church. So far she has used none of hei hard-earned money for charitable enterprise, "but doubtless with the endowment ol her church she will allow her conscience to remain at peace with all the world. Rocky Mountain Kate is a queer loaking individual, with her garments which show plainly that they were made *br wrcafcxHS' t>st, autt her *ld gingham sun bonnet and her cowhide boots.

HOW SHE MADE HIM PROPOSE. Softly shone the subdued light of the solitary gas jet in the dining room, and soft was the voice of the abashed young Erasmus Shackelford,, who sat .on theSjdge oi the chair mopping his heated face, and smiled with a kind of papier-mache smile at the entrancing young woman in the dazzling aureole of whose auburn hair he had tered in agonising captivity for months anu months.

"Miss Viola," he said, clearing histhroat, and speaking with every inflection of a man about to say something, " you wil! not be surprised, I presume, if I—if lex • press the feeling, the—the opinion, as it were, that—that it's pretty hot this evening?" Erasmus gave his face another frenzied swipe with his pocket handkerchief and subsided into palpitating silence. "No," replied Miss Viola, with asmik that brought a large and ecstatic lump oJ something or other up into his throat, " I am not surprised, Mr. Shackelford; you made the same observation earlier in the evening." " Y-yes," he gasped, " I believe I did. It —is not an entirely new remark. In fact, il was a kind of a—of a chestnut, I suppose." The agitated youth made another effort to crush down the lump in his throat. " And I—l feel, Miss Jon—Viola—as if 1 were a—a kind of—of observation mysell that was getting tiresome. Haven't I been observed here a little too often ? Do I seem to be a—a chestnut ?"—and as he moved tiis handkerchief over his glowing face in iremulous jabs, his voice took on a despairing sound—" a sort of—of roasted chesf nit?"

"No, Erasmus," slowly answered the naiden. "When a chestnut is roasted il Dops." .- The conscientious historian is bound tc •ecord the fact that at this point Erasmus mmediately popped.

3RIGIN OF A FAMILIAR QUOTATION. James Connor Roach, the Irish cornelian, who was for many years a popular ictor in Australia,' gives the following as the origin of the quotation, " He left his country for his country's good" : " In a little graveyard, close beside a town :alled Parramatta, in Australia, rest the nortal remains of George Barrington, the )nce notorious London pickpocket. He might have been called the veritable king ol :he craft, and his deeds of thievery wsre for i long time the talk of London, until finally :he strong arm of the law was laid upon lim. He was transported from England ibout one hundred years ago,' and after laving served a term of years was released >n a ticket-of-leave and became chief conitable of the town, where he now sleeps the Jeep that has given him a ticket-of-leave or ever.

" It is evident that the love of the metrowlis hovered around him, and when he vecame a comparatively free man he seems :o have remembered the hours he spent in he theatre during the reckless days of London life. In fact, he was the first to organise a theatrical entertainment in the land of the kangaroo.' His company was composed of men like himself; they were all •>,ket-of-leave men, but, from the accounts :hat have been handed down, they seem to iave been more than clever actors. " The prologue, written by himself, and spoken at the first performance, has passed into the history of the Australian stage, and contains the disputed quotation. It ran as follows : " Ladies and gentlemen: From distant climes o'er wide spread seas we come. Tho' not with much e*clat or beat of drum— True patriots, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good, pririnw views disposed our generous zeal, What urged our hearts was our countrp'i weal. - j. \nd without farther fear of turnkey's lockets, .Tho' in an honest way, we'll pick your pockets." "Rock-a-by, baby!" began the new nrse. ,!' Desist l H exclaimed the infant, nperlously. "I am aware that the vibration of the atmosphere will cause a cradlf suspended fa a