3654 - Communion Cups by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 30, 1912

3654 — Communion Cups

By Editor

Can not the arguments that have been presented in favor of communion cups also be used against kissing, which is practised as a religious act by some Christians? A. K.

Yes, from the health standpoint. We question quite seriously whether disease is transmitted in this way to any extent, and yet there are those who feel that there is great danger in a single communion cup, especially where people of all ages and conditions of health partake. Of course the danger might not be quite so serious where the kissing is upon the cheek. There are dangers, doubtless, to some persons in both, and to others, perhaps, in neither. Neither custom is mandatory.