The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

130 Scriptulre aCd te Temperance Question.
ened, it may be answereed that partial inconsistency is
better than total; and, further, that if the olA symbolic
meaning should be still conveyed at all, it may most
properly be observed by rejecting the fermented substance (wine) which retains the products of the fermenting process (alcohol and carbonic acid), rather than the
substance (bread) which has cast off those products while
subjected to the heat of the oven. The objector likewise
forgets (3.) That as the Lord's Szitfer is deszgned to bring before
thIe cvomznizicanl tle redeeming work of C,irist as lyftied by
his broken body and shed blood, Ihere ought to be as close an
analogy as is piosszble between the physical elements and the
sfiriz'tialfacts. The Redeemer himself was "pure, undefiled, and separate from sinners," and his work was like
himself, and designed to conform us to his glorious
image. Bread is a fitting representative of what is lifegiving, for it is the staff of bodily life (and leavened
bread does not lose this essential representativeness);
but alcoholic wine is in reality wine mixed with an element hostile to health, life, virtue, and Christian excellence-it is wine which by fermentation has become a
" mocker" and " defrauder"; and, as soon as this fact is
understood, the symbol loses its symbolic beauty and
fitness, and the communicant is compelled to think of
what the physical element ought to be, and not what it
really is. But what need is there for this incongruity to
subsist, when "the pure blood of the grape" can be procured, and a true correspondence between the visible
substance and invisible reality can be established? The
silly charge that total abstainers reject wine and prefer
water in the eucharist is one of the idle tales by which
ignorance or malice is accustomed to defame a principle
unassailable by reason. The head and front of all the
offending is that many of the friends of temperance desire to use, and to see used, in the celebration of the