| Show t I: C4 — the V Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday May 23 2002 What should be consumed at Gommynion? use grape juice in Communion services continuing the purpose of Thomas Welch's inno- By Richard Ostllng APReligtort Writer A dentist’s invention 133 years ago changed the way millions of Americans worship He was Thomas Bramwell Welch an abstemious Methodist who lived in a New Jersey town named appropri- ately Vineland He cooked up grape juice to make it permanently nonalcoholic applying the pasteurization process that Louis Pasteur had invented four years earlier to sterilize wine beer and milk Son Charles Welch promoting the product at the 1 893 World's Fair in Chicago said unfermented grape juice was bom “out of a passion to serve God by helping his church to give its communion (as) ‘the fruit of the vine’ instead of the ‘cup of devils”’ Welch’s juicy product hit at the right time American Protestants were just going flat out in their crusade to outlaw the manufacture ’and sale of all alcoholic beverages so it seemed unseemly to use alcohol in their own worship Today Welch Foods Inc of Concord Mass sells $630 million a year in juices and other products One steady segment of its market is US Protestant churches the majority of which continue to hot only served wine at the Last Supper but performed his ' first miracle by turning water into wine during the wedding reception at Cana (John 2:1-- 1 1) By their count wine is mentioned 183 times in die Old Testament and 26 times in the New Testament But regarding the Last Supper Davis Huckabee’s pro-drtract for Baptist Thimpeter Publications of Granbury Texas notes that the Gospel accounts speak only of die “cup” and the “fruit of the vine” and never use the word vation Even grape juice isn’t safe enough for the zealously antialcohol Mormon religion which requires that water be drunk during Communion to avoid even the slightest risk of fermentation Roman Catholics are equally strict but in the opposite direction Section 924 of the church’s law code requires that in Mass "the wine must be natural" meaning it must be alcoholic not grape juice (Typically Catholic parishioners receive only bread and not wine at the altar which became an important area of dispute with Protestants in the 16th-centu- “wine” One early Protestant proponent of a teetbtaling Jesus researched various ways the ancients might have preserved nonalcoholic grape juice Another developed the “two-win-e theory” compiling biblical and historical support for the idea that “wine” in the Bible referred to two different beverages either the fermented alcoholic drink or unfermented grape juice That theory is applied to the Cana wedding story by Churches of Christ partisan Chuck Northrop whose article “Did Jesus Turn Water Into Winfe?” is posted on the Yet Jesus Christ himself was a teetotaler according to claims from some dry Protes- tants That remarkable non is discussed in an article in Bible Review magazine by Mark Gstohl and Michael Homan who teach theology at Xavier University in indulgent New Orleans “The faulty notion that Jesus drank nonalcoholic grape juice simply places the cultural baggage of the modem temperance movement on Web site http:wwwchurch-esofchristn- et Northrop figures that the Cana celebrants drank grape juice because John’s Gospel recounts that Jesus produced Israel” they first-centu- ry ' V y Reformation) ry I write After all they note Jesus t£r 'T '' v 'ii - r' —i v: t ' ‘ ’ i AP Photo JnsuB serves wine at The Last Supper in Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece painting the day’s best beverage Northrop figures if alcohol had been sensed they would have been too drunk to know the difference Surely Jesus would have provided only nonalcoholic juice he continues because ' the Savior wouldn’t have led ' people into occasions of sin After all the Bible warns against the evil of drunkenness (for example Proverbs 20:1 Habakkuk 2:15)' “Did Jesus turn water into intoxicating wine? Absolutely not!” Northrop concludes The identical case is made on a Web site that criticizes Christianity and defends Islam It says Jesus as a good Muslim prophet would have converted water into grape juice because God forbids alcoholic drink These Muslims find it “inconceivable” that Jesus would have produced a bever- age that they blame for the “social and moral bankruptcy” of die West j i Public library mines family Bibles for genealogy studies: By David Dishneau Associated Press Writer HAGERSTOWN Md (AP) — The history of Bob and Jean Beck's family is written in their Bible on a few yellowed pages between the Old and New Testaments “Mother Beck” it begins “Susanna Miller was bom May the 30 1793” Subsequent entries cover generations of births deaths and marriages ending with the wedding of their daughter Jeanne in 1999 ' This cherished handwritten record of a Washington Coun- ' Genealogy experts say the project is a rare and unusually effort to create a public repository of such material indexing the records which it is hoped will be published “When this is all complet- ed it will be a capitulation of vital statistics from all those Bibles” said John Fryedirec- tor of the institution’s Western' Maryland Room Luge hardcover Bibles often contain a handful of blank middle pages fix recording important family well-organiz- ed - services digital scanner technology promise to make Bible record- keeping less cumbersome have Joneses pnd Smiths and everybody else in it as people many into the family” he said The two Beck family Bibles list Becks Bakers Mid- dlelrairfk Ellsworths — wm of the most common names in the local telephone book ' “I think they’re related to everyone in the whole town” said Jean Beck who married into the family after moving to liftMWtri H&geMfbfftffiOffi inokiiMu hi mu cwiuaigv — pages of handwritten material into electronic files) he said ' “The interesting tiling about Bible records that makes them unique is that it might be the Henderson Bible but it will “If you know a woman had 1967 The clan included farmers 'musiciansSaloonkeepers tai- lors and dry cleaners as well as the builder of an early man- sum she said Bob Beck a retired Hager- - fi stown businessman whose family goes back five tions in the area said he liked the idea of preserving the Bible records for posterity “We thought it was great that dameone was doing that he said “and we thought that ' if anybody was looking for it we’d be happy to add to it” j - cartw Fraa 2297 N Main HOTUNE 7 (KKlWaMU LQRDOF1HESMC5 CHANCNG MS Ml 990 aoacsioinBs - A8EAUIHJLMINDira M0MIMS Mam 1:10 fcOSIr IHECOUNTOFMOMEOBSIOmh IMOMSMwUS iawoRBtSATiiun f’" 'j jinninnnSntaaMa9K: The Lions throughout the United States & Canada participate in the Lions Recycle For Sight program collecting used eyeglasses for countries in 56 MMCMMMBMHWUWftMIMUMr HJMMBHUMOVCTICKErSONfMl WMMBfUSONLViSjM - rf WE JVOVlESS K 2450 North Main uonM ni aao Collection boxes in Logan: SkrYhns Oonwiw aooMo woo UkhdihUn i-- USSSL' SpUarnian am rui ox 7o no CINEMA03 as- Soorpion King - 23 70S i V AmJm iXil I AaimIu Cjuiim Antimnmm K SDK 430 Amsduyf J & A MWiigfletartkt Ofier Good on Tuesday or Thursday CWy Logan 753-24- 1 CafCtptSob V 2 787-184- 132 Detect Sheriff ? 4 fiM 1300 NorSi Main Oahind Si Mol A IhoRootio jiCKteSiciStoaft SrardTl a AA 1 n OX ' TWO mm rl: y i S'- v ' VR i V irv j’fry i 795 North Mom Mwoar By Numfaani n 'if ' USM ’ -- KVO MDNGNT SHOWS KXSMMNBi Bewrafr QfRECiaBrMnrunAirsu irtnirra 01 !LI Oi MOnft rA Vstn ARDOuD 0( j' r‘ 1 1 ! U’i ' s - 10 -- i i ' t v i y - r v S y - REELtTIM DOORS " "'J MO K300N i ?:! office t'S 1108Hwy165 v tfc mwi mim b jM Light Trucks 685 North Mabi i: 30 Jf VxiWIdarM SukNh tract 2SM200K ' r ''j'-- Tlj- jCACHEiVALLEY3 A' j"' i V - UfidrSoinadimgllokNo2' TiOO ' & V p 201090 70) MS TWO ' i v (tot GwtySMIt OfetS AA : SkrVon In developing nations a pair of eyeglasses can cost as much as on inonth’s wages Here’s a chance for Cache Valley residents to do something useful with those old glasses you “just can’t throw out You can drop them off at a collection sight or call for pickup iv FLAT TIRE J W 2S& ' Most Pisesenger Cars ilif & tjV i iiiT' srT IE her fifth child and from that same family Bible you know that only two of those Children lived to adulthood then you know how hard life was in early America” lie said Historians have long recognized the value of Bible records but compiling them Troop Pack or Team Call - A On or Off The Vehicle ifenmo National Gansaloaical So five children and that she died the same day as the birth of location of your nearest 1800-748-42- Henderson said advances in entries along with : church records of christen: ings weddings and burials "dan prove invaluable in documenting early Maryland life said R J Rockefeller the state archives’ director of reference For Information and the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA has been problematic “It takes some central man- agement which is not always possible” Rockefeller said ‘The Washington County library project is go significant because it will give an institu- tional framework for the pro-- ject” events Tljpse it' ty family is now a public treasure too The Becks are among hundreds of area families who have had their Bible pages photocopied and placed on file at the Washington County Free Library for genealogical studies Many of the nation’s private genealogy societies alsa have collected such mated alsaid Russell Henderson spokesman for the National Genealogical Society in Arlington Va “Some of those old family Biblep &re better records than anything else” he said In Maryland systematic public recording of births and deaths did not exist before 1898 jn counties and 1875 in die city of Baltimore “Frankly 1 don’t liiow of said any other project like Nancy Bramucci director of special collections at the Maryland State Archives “I actually thought about doing the same thing at one point because it really would be a valuable resource but it was just more than I could do” The library in downtown Hagerstown has been copying family records from Bibles since 1968 and now has 400 to 300 such files This year the library is using a grant from a private estate to begin compiling and ym : A-'A v i "3 ' 9 |
