Question 12.- Can you harmonize 1 Cor. 11:5, with 1 Cor. xiv 34. If women are to prophesy in this dispensation, where, or on what occasions are they to do so, as it was not permitted them to speak in the assemblies ?

Answer.-Prophecy is speaking directly from God, often revealing things in a supernatural way, but always conveying a direct message from Him. 1 Cor. 14:34, shows women were to be silent in the assembly ; therefore, evidently, the prayer and prophecy spoken of in the eleventh chapter, was of a private character, no doubt in the home.

Question 13.- Is it according to Scripture that Christ used fermented wine in instituting His Supper? Must it be fermented, thus changing its nature before it can symbolize the blood of Christ, as of a lamb without spot ?

Answer.-The wine used at the Lord's Supper was unquestionably that partaken of at the Passover; the same, without doubt, also used in the drink offerings. Scripture speaks of no other kind of wine, and this was of such a character, that the abuse of it by the carnal Corinthians, resulted in drunkenness. (1 Cor. 11:21.)

Unfermented grape juice is not wine, and when the natural process of fermentation has been arrested by chemicals, or In some other artificial way, it becomes anything but a suitable symbol of the blood of Christ.

The remedy for drunkenness, as for all other sin, is Christ alone. If all liquors could be abolished from the world, that would not blot out one sin. All should have horror for drunkenness, as for every other sin ; and surely those who are endeavoring to diminish its evils, for Christ's sake, are entitled to respect and sympathy. But we are persuaded that God's way is the only true one-" Make the tree good, and his fruit good." When a man is born again he has a new nature which has no desire for sin; and if he mortifies his members, which are upon the earth, if he reckons himself to be "dead indeed unto sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus," sin will not have dominion over him.