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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:38:45 -0400
From: Brenda Brasher <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: H-Net American Religious History discussion group
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Subject: REPLY: Grape Juice

From:  Jackson W. Carroll
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I don't have the dates, but the story of how it happened
for Methodists is fun.  The problem with using grape juice
was keeping it from fermenting.  Methodists, emphasizing
abstinence, had a problem.  It was solved by a
Methodist dentist in New Jersey (I think), who developed a
process for pasteurizing the grape juice.  His name was
Welch, and the rest is history.  It's a good example of
doing well by doing good!

Jackson Carroll



On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:08:40 -0400 Brenda Brasher
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> From:  Peter  W. Williams
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> Another question: does anyone know when and
> where grape juice begins to be substituted for
> wine at communion?
>
> Peter Wms.
> Miami University
> Oxford OH 45056
>

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Jackson W. Carroll
Duke University Divinity School
Box 90983, Durham, N. C. 27708
Phone  (919) 660-3423    Fax (919) 660-3473
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