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August 18, 1909. . begin to examine our floa various rooms, large and ship, and lastly those witl far from the busy world fo we consider the wonderful modern steel ship, like 011 genius, skill, industry, ant brains and thoughts seem ness of the ocean ; and hu with a spark of divinity. : speare. "What a piece of w son, so infinite in faculty, i in apprehension how like : one eighth of a mile long. 7< from keel to upper deck. 28,000 tons of iron and m swim, until we consider til pressibilitv of water. Anc for so many days and mile this dense fluid and against Of course one does not sea in shins " tn spp all t world; but the more we in of the deep," the greater advances in navigation w A month ago. when at Sav the first vessel propelled I) was from that port in 1817, horn. Then that vessel d It is just a century ago as "Clermont" started from ) Albany, against the wind velocity of 5 miles an hour larger, go five times taste For five bright and cool J11 palace, like a thing of life smooth seas; with a delig and intelligent mortals. A ters of the gospel, four of each passage money. Sev "second class"; and save 1 far as I can see they enjoy -1 ?' . mult Llian ?C 111 3L LlclSS accommodations are far su ten years ago. On July the Azores Islands, "Florej of these volcanic islands, miles from New York and ugal. They belong to Po 1435. They are semi-trop or hot; and so very fertile to 258,000 industrious agri est island is "St. Michaels' ? < ,1^1 V/1IC, I UHUl UUI v TrtUcl t#I nately for us, two of the each, which we sailed alon about two miles, so that t fields, and gardens were p a day, as we steamed along miles of latitude so that a pass them, all in daylight; the passengers to hail lan we were in sight of Cape St July 4th. we expect to ent famous Western gateway. THE PRESBYTERI/ ting palace; just to see its small, then the size of the li whom we are to live, r ten or more days. When dimensions and build of a rs, we must marvel at the I invention of man. Then, almost to equal the vastman nature seems touched so we exclaim with Shakeork is man, so noble in rean action how like an angel, i God." Our boat is about o feet wide aiid 80 feet deep. One great marvel is how erchandise can be made to le great density and incom)ther marvel is, how it can s be swiftly forced through : powerful winds. have to "go down to the he modern wonders of the vestigate these "Leviathans is our astonishment at the ithin less than a century, annah, Ga.. I was told that y steam across the Atlantic , only it years before I was lepended partly upon sails, we all know when Fulton's \ ew York city up towards and tide, at the marvelous ! Now, steamers fifty times r than our first steamboat, me days, our grand moving , has been gliding through jlited swarm of interesting iinong us, are eleven miniswhom are ah1f? tr? nav inn en of them preferred to go lalf that passage sum. As themselves fully as much or people. The second cabin perior to the first cabin, of ist we struck the front of >" (flowers). There are nine lying in mid ocean, 2,000 a 1,000 miles West of Portrtugal, discovered by them ical lands, never very cold : that they give sustenance cultural people. The largwith several lar^e towns i8,ooo inhabitants. Fortuislands were 36 miles long igside of at the distance of he smiling vineyards, grain lainly visible to us for half They embrace about 250 whole day was required to much to the excitement of d again. Three hours ago Vincent, and early Sunday, er the Mediterranean at its Henry M. Hall. iN OF THE SOUTH. WHY IS WINE NOT M NEW TESTAMENT By Rev. C. W. No less than eight times t ters speak directly of the liq sacrament of the Lord's Sup word "wine" used. Matthev each gives ivn account of the and they all avoid the use of is this? Both Luke and Paul quot< himself and they likewise av< Can this be accidental? Ma ther and give the words of t directly to the contents of th< it is natural and necessary to contains, still the Lord refuse; using instead a general term vine." (See verses following 22, Luke 22: 19, 1 Cor. 11:2, not from any aversion to the that the Lord made use of it < is used by nearly all the N It is evident that the contents of the vine. The Greek wot one for fruit. (Not karoos One of the prayers used by.t was in these words: "Blesse< God who hast created the fi probably takes the expression so, he had good reason for us refuse to say "wine"? Paul "For as often as ye eat this 1 ye do shew the Lord's death 1 he go out of the way to sa; "wine"? Five times within f word "cup" where he had in the contents of the vessel. ( was an accident or for a r people will agree that the cuj naturally contain a portion of by the Jews at that time, at t claim that this should be u Others point to those "evil-< wine in the Corinthian love same drink was used in the sa Let us not go into the tw< pose for the sake of argumen the weak, sour wine that was erage of the people of that c< we use tea or coffee. Let us s down the centuries and saw of distillation and the consecp evils of alcohol; that he sa1 people are making in this yc rid the world of one of the gr upon the race. He saw that tl the wine cup would he banisl Christian home and, knowing vout souls who would insist that he did, he refused to sa cup and thus left the Church a uct of the vine that the enlig time might demand. 9 ENTIONED IN THE SACRAMENT? Maxwell. he New Testament wri[tiicl element used in the per. but not once is the Mark, Luke and Paul institution of the Supper the word "wine." Why : the words of the Lord oid the use of the word, tthew and Mark go furhe Lord where he refers : sacramental cup, where designate what the cup s to use the word "wine," , calling it "fruit of the I Matt. 26:26. Mark 14: 3.) Why is this? It is word itself, for we find an other occasions and it ew Testament writers. 4-U? 1?* v_? 1 llic VIIJJ Has ct piuuutl d used is not the usual but gennema, produce.) he Jews at the Passover 1 art thou, Jehovah, our uit of the vine." Jesus i from that prayer, but if ing it. Why do they all 1 says in i Cor. 11:26: aread and drink this cup :ill he come." Why does y "cup"? Why not savour verses Paul uses the mind not the vessel but Tan we believe that this hetorical reason ? Most ) on that occasion would the drink that was used :he Paschal feast. Some nferraented grape juice. wed snots " drunk with feast and infer that the icrament. > wine theories bnt supt that the cup contained and is the common bevmintrv, used by them as uppose that Jesus looked the invention of the art lent multiplication of the iv the struggle that his ar of his grace. 1909. to eatest evils that ever fell le time would come when led from the table of the that there would he (.Icon copying everything y what fluid was in the t liberty to use any prod htened conscience of the