Abstract
The Bedford Avenue Church (Baptist) of Brooklyn, New York, has followed the example of a church in Rochester, in bringing into use individual cups for the communion service. This step has been under consideration for six months, under the lead of the pastor,Dr. Gunning, who is a graduate in medicine. The cups adopted in this instance have a capacity of one-half an ounce, and the wine that will be used will be an unfermented grape-juice. This new arrangement will for a time stand as the ultra-sanitary plan for this act of church ritual. The most weighty argument that has been used for the furtherance of the new plan has been that there seems to be no good and sufficient reason why cleanly people should drink from one common sacramental chalice, any more than the same people should have a repugnance to making use of one common teaspoon, or one
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