“THE Synod expresses its unqualified disapproval of the use of Unfermented Wine and the individual Communion Cup in the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, and desires that the congregations of this Church steadfastly adhere to the usages at present observed in the Church in the administration of the Lord’s Supper, and discontinue the new usages referred to above, and elsewhere adopted.
“(1) In regard to the matter of the wine, we consider that unfermented wine is not, in the sense of the institution, wine at all. There is no reasonable ground to call in question that it was fermented wine our Lord made use of at the first Supper, just as there is no reasonable ground to call in question that it was fermented wine that was ordinarily used at the Passover.
“(2) As touching the cup, the use of the individual cup seems to destroy the idea of communion, that is, the communion of the
Lord’s people with one another. At the institution of the Supper one cup only was used, through which the idea of communion was perfectly realised. And if it so be that, in the practice of the Church in Scotland, ordinarily more than one cup has been used, that feature has existed only because the communicants were too many for one cup to suffice, and in the passing of the cup from one to another the idea of communion has been retained. The contention that the individual cup serves the interests of health is groundless, and an idea to which we can attach no significance.”