Juice of the Grape

Is grape juice a proper substitute for wine at Holy Communion? In England last week, the Rev. M. B. Morgan told the lower house of the Convocation of Canterbury: "The Baptists, I understand, make it a condition of membership that the members shall be teetotalers." "Shame!" cried indignant members. Said the Venerable Percy Hartill, Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent: "Wine properly so called means fermented grape juice and not just grape juice .". . It is simply a question of whether the Church dares . . . to vary what our Lord appointed as the outward sign."

Then the members voted, 82 to 44, that the Church of England's Communion wine should continue to be "pure, fermented juice of the grape--good and wholesome."

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