Christian Cleanliness by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 17, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 29.

Christian Cleanliness

By Editor

In the SIGNS of July 3 was an advertisement by the Sanitary Communion Outfit Company of Rochester, N. Y., of individual communion-cup services, which have for sometime been coming into use, and are now found in churches of nearly all denominations. We are asked to commend them. We can only say that for those who desire such an outfit, this is probably the best that can be secured. The demand for them emphasizes the lack of cleanliness, the increase of disease, the weakening of Christian love. To us the service with the individual cup seems less than the old-time communion service conducted among, and partaken of, by clean Christians. In our Lord’s day His table was not filled with consumptives, and there were doubtless none who professed His name that came to communion service with lips and moustache stained by tobacco, and breaths foul with many malodors. If the Christian rule to eat and drink, and do all else to the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:31) were lived, there would be no need of such things as individual cups. As it is, “Let every one be persuaded,” etc.