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SOME COMMENT ON
MODES OF BAPTISM.
Charlie Christian Contends that the
Only Scriptural Mode of Bap
tism is by Immersion
To The Newark Journal:
If you will allow me space I
would like to write a few com
ments on a recent sermon on bap
tism, which I understand was di
rected at myself and a few other
Cnmbellites, and in which I con
sider that the preacher glorified
himself u ith ignorance and stu
pidity.
To say or even think that the
baptism mentioned by Paul in
Ileb. 0:2, also 9:10, have the faint
est allusion to the sprinkling un
der the law, betrays palpable igno
rance in any one, and surely it is
a very great surprise to find it in
a preacher.
Paul had too much sense to in
timate that the sprinkling under
the law was baptism, for he knew
that sprinkling was in no sense
baptism; that baptism could not
i»e performed in any such way.
Baptise means to immerse, not
.sprinkle. Besides in all the sprink
ling under the law unmixed water
was never used, and 1 challenge
any one to show one case where
unmixed water was ever sprinkled
on any one in any age of the
world as a religious rite.
The water used in sprinkling
was a mixture always of blood,
oil or ashes. Water alone was
never used. In regard to John’s
baptism being numbered with the
Jewish purifications, I will say
that, it is really too silly to deserve
notice. In the new Testament
baptism was associated with water
only; even water in its native
place, as for instance, John's bap
tising in the river of .Jordan. Now
who is simple enough to suppose
that when Paul used the word
baptism in the *‘>th and bth chap
ters of the Hebrews he referred to
the sprinkling under the law where
water om.y was never usea: 171
course lie. did not. But lie refer
red to the eighteen bathings under
the law, in which water only was
always used, the entire body be
ing washed in each case. These
bathings occurred thousands of
times every year so Paul calls
them diaphorois baptismois divers
washings (baptism) in Heb. 9:1b.
The divers baptisms referred to
by Paul in the *>th and 9th chap
ters of Heb. were the bathings un
der the law, and not the sprink
ling. My friend says that “the
Bible no where says that Christ
went into the water, but that it
does say John baptised with wa
ter.” It is stated very positively
that christ came up out of the wa
ter. l)o you suppose he could
have done this without first having
gone down into it' Do you think
the phrase “Baptized with water”
proves sprinkling and not immer
sion: In the sentence, “The
smith cools his iron with water,”
do you think he does this by
sprinkling the water on the hot
iron or does he not do it by dip
ping the heated iron in the water!
Besides Christ went into the river
and was baptised and then He came
out of the water. This shows hi
was not sprinkled.
As for my being particularly
anxious about immersion, ! cannot
say that I am. 1 am only amused
at the parson’s excitement am
blunders. The new Testament is
too plain on the subject of baptism
to give cause of fear upon the part
of those who believe it. For ex
ample, it is called a burial and a
resurrection in the *»th chapter ot
Kornans. In going over the places
of baptism 1 have not found ont
case that even points to an allu
sion of the possible probability ol
sprinkling and pouring, but in ev
ery caw baptism or immersion is
positively taught. There are too
many following1 the calf-path.
Yours in peace, love and good
will to all.
C11AKLKY Cll UISTIA N.
A PECULIAR DEATH.
On Sunday, the lHth. .las. li.
Postal, a young man aged 21, re
siding in Memphis and son of
Oapt. Ed Postal, so well known
about here as a former White riv
er steaml>oatman, went across the
river from Memphis for a bath in
the Mississippi. One of the party
found some turtle eggs and the
young men were pelting each oth
er with them. Young Postal, (liv
ing to avoid one of these missils,
struck his head against a sandbar
and broke his neck, lie spoke
but once afterwards and died a
half hour later. The water into
which he sprang headforemost
was scarcely more than a foot
deep. The unfortunate young
man was a cousin of Mr. and Mrs.
.1. E. Kosebrough, and his mother
and sister were recent visitors at
Batesville. Batesville < iuard.
THE SIHPLE LIFE.
Man risetli up in the morning
and starteth to his office. He
dodges automobiles and streetcars,
starts back just in time to miss
connections with a live wire, sees
an open coal hole just in time, un
knowingly walks under a safe l>e
ing hoisted to a third story, enters
his office in a building built in vio
lation of the building laws, collides
with book agents, has a narrow es
cape from eleven insurance agents,
is mistaken by a bill collector for
some other man, works like a
slave to pay tribute to the trusts
that have collared everything in
sight, breathes impure air and has
to drink water from a water sys
tem having its source of supply in
a sewer contaminated stream, and
repeats the dodging tactics on his
way home.
This is the simple life that the
average city man lives.
IT FIXED HIM.
The manager of a museum who
came to Arkansas to get the old
est man is suffering from nervous
prostration and is seeing things.
The old man says to him on his
arrival: “I can’t go, pa would
not consent.” “Is your pa alive?”
“Yes.” “Where is he?” “Up
stairs, putting grand pa to bed.”
This is what keeled him over, how
lever we hope to see him get well
and move to our state, and on such
convincing proof of longevity as
this he surely can't resist.
| ARRESTED ON CHARGES
OF GRAND LARCENY
Alleged That Thief Stole Enough
Mater ial to Build a Houae
and to Paint it.
Prairie (irove, July 29.—For
sometime past the lumbermen of
this place and Lincoln have been
missing lumber, paints and shin-!
| gles from their various yards, and
| recently suspicion has pointed to
Fine Shannons of Evansville, this
county, with the result that wnr
! rants were sworn out and he was
: arrested by Marshal Pharr and
Deputy Sheriff Rogers. Today!
(his examining trial was held be*
J fore Justice II. P. Greene, and he
was held to await the action of the
! grand jury on three counts for
i
i burgulary and three counts for
I
grand larceny. Bril was fixed at
$500 in each case making a total
of $3,000.
It is charged that Shannon used
to visit the yards in the davtime,
select the articles he wanted and
come at night, enter the yards and
ottices by means of duplicate keys
and get what lie wanted, in some
instances getting as much as a wag
on load of lumber. In all lie se
cured enough to completely con
struct a house and material where
with to paint it. When arrested
he had quite a large number of
keys which would unlock the doors
of a number of stores.
Shannon is one of the principals
in the celebrated Fisher and Shan
non war that resulted in the death
of a number of persons near Evans
ville in 1 Stiff, and is now consider
ed a very dangerous man. The
officers who arrested him allege
that he made threats against them
if he succeeded in getting out of
| the present trouble.
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