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"getting back to the plain-and on-
and blind the eyes of the people.
But our contemporary rests on sophisticated precepts of Christ, which should grow till it should,
the belief of others since the days that we become real Christians. The fill the whole world. Christ came
of the Apostles. That is, it believes half information of Luther and in the days of the fourth or Roman
in and practices infant baptism and Calvin did something toward res­ Empire, gave to Peter the keys of
sprinkling simply because seven­ toration of his genuine doctrines-; the kingdom, and told him whatso­
tenths of the people do so! We the present contest will, I hope, ever he bound on earth should be
suppose this is the only argument complete what they began, and bound in heaven, and whatsoever
it has to offer ! Now We ask the place us where the Evangelists left he loosed on earth should be loosed
Advocate to show us one case of in­ us.— Letter of Thomas Jefferson in heaven; we ask what was the use
of giving Peter the keys if he never
Tant baptism or even an allusion to Recently brought to Light.
used
them ? ___ • We answer, he did
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“ifr'TTearer -than
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T he R ight versus the C onven ­ use tTem on ¿he
to Christ and ..the ApcstiqA Also
one case of sprinkling or pouring tional .—There are some folks who where 300 were made subjects of
before A. D. 251. As we said be­ don’t care a straw about the right­ Christ’s kingdom, and at the house
fore, so say we again, if the Advo­ eousness of a certain course provid­ of Cornelius, taking in Jews and
cate c&n not defend its dogmatisms ing it is “ the correct thing to do.” Gentiles, and it has been growing
They have got their political rib- ever since, and is now becoming
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favor of infant baptism. We justify test, it should not print them in the bon, and they are just ready to The greathibUhWfi-'W
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„ red in the face in the whole earth. I do not differ
the rite, therefore, solely on the first place. Let us be done with swear
defence of what their leaders say, with Mr. Smith on the four king­
ground of logical inference, and not throwing dust.
without caring to consider whether doms, but as each of the four king­
on any express word of Christ or
his Apostles. This may perhaps be Selections and Comments. it is right or no. Now we like doms existed for a time before it
loyalty and pat every man on the overpowered its predecessor I ar­
deemed by some of our readers a
C onversion .—The Christian at back who has the courage of his gue that Christ’s kingdom has ex­
strange position for a Pedobaptist.
convictions; but let a man.be a isted for over eighteen hundred
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It is by no means, however, a singu­ Work prints this note:
lar opinion. Hundreds of learned
Dr. Leonard W. Bacon says that man, and not act like one of those years and will exist until the last
Pedobaptists have come to the same “ among intelligent theologians, at wooden soldiers of our childhood, enemy is destroyed, which is death,
conclusion; especially since the least outside the Baptist commun- who moved in stiff precision accord- then will be used the two keys
ion,” he knows of none who holds
New Testament has been subjected that “every true disciple must know ing. io the working of our fingers. which Christ gave to Peter. On
to a closer, more conscientious, and the time and circumstances of his Is it right, pure, honest, honorable, page 89 we agree that the kingdom
more candid exegesis, than was conversion, and be able to give ac- Christian ? That is the question; Was in the future, at the time the
ask that-,JLord insii
formerly practiced by con traver­ count^tEein?^"~We_khd^
sialists.” Again Dr. Bledsol says: intelligent theologians of any de­ your sword for any cause until the 26: 26); but as John the Baptist
nomination who hold to any such
preached the kingdom was at hand,
but what we wish in this connec­ nonsense. We think better of the answer is satisfactory.— Ex.
just about to be ushered in; also
tion, -to emphasize most particu­ Baptists than Dr. Bacon seems to.
Original Contributions.
we agree it wjis not set up before
larly, is the wonderful contrast be­
If the word “ Conversion ” is used
his ascension (Acts-1: 6,) but that
tween the silence of Christ and the
to mean some mysterious change
THE GREAT IMAGE.
it was started (Acts 2) and was set
everlasting clamors of his Church.
wrought on the heart by the direct
BY CBAIGIE SHARP.
up on the day of Pentecost after his
Though he uttered not. one express
. operation of the Holy Spi rit in con
- -- Nebuebadnezzaris -vision. I find ascension, and that flesh and blood
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word on the subject of infant bap
nection with seeing a light or hear­
in thoughts by Uriah Smith’s re­ can enter the kingdom of Christ;
tism, yet on this very subject, havo
ing a voice from heaven, then we
ference to the four great powers, but that it can not enter the king­
his professed followers filled the
undertake to say that no living
the* * Babylonish,
Medo-Persian, dom of God (1 Cor. 15: 50). This
world with sound and fury. The
man is now able or ever has been
Grecian and Roman Empires, and last passage, the kingdom of God,
Apostles imitated his example. This
to know and give an account of the
if he would use as good reasoning is what awaits those who are found
is the united voice of all enlighten­
time and circumstances of his con­
all through as lie does in the first faithful.in the kingdom of Christ
ed scholarship, not only in the M?
version. There are no such con-
three kingdoms he would under­ on earth, who are fighting to over­
E. Church, but in all Christendom ;
versons to Christ. But if it means
*flesh
and the devil. The
stand the kingdom of God and his come the
and the weakness and the fossilized
a conversion such as we find in the
Christ. On page 52 he says: “We gospel of Jesus Christ is now being
condition of tbe Advocate will be
New Testament, which was not
do not take it to be necessary that preached and now is the time to
both laughed at and pitied by sen­
completed without obedience, then
Babylon to be called a universal enter in through the door, which is
sible people. It has never tried to
to say that one does not know
do any thing save to catch at some when he was converted is equiva? kingdom should have had ever class Christ. At the end will be pro­
little side issue about which it tries lent to saying that he does not of people and every country in the claimed the everlasting gospel
to make a great ado. Both the ob- know when he gave up sin and was world absolutely under its svyay, which will be at the time that
for this was not in a strict sense Christ shall have conquered all
• ject and folly of such a course is baptized into Jesus Christ.
the fact with any one of the king­ things and delivers the kingdom to
apparent to all. If its space is so
the Father God; tlen will be
very precious it can not be filled
C alvinism .—The truth is that doms which are called in history
kingdoms.
Babylon gathered home all the faithful
with a discussion of these funda­ Calvanism has introduced into the universal
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mental doctrines and practices of Christian religion more new absur­ never conquered Greece nor Rome, soldiers who have come up through
its Church, then why does it fill it dities than its leader had purged it but Rome was founded before much tribulation, and though they
with false issues and spiteful misre­ of old ones. Our Savior did not Babylon had risen to the climax of may have received many scars in
presentation ? It has strictly and come into the world to save meta­ its power.” So I suggest that battle to overcome sin, then shall
studiously avoided letting its read­ physicians only. Ilis doctrines are reasoning in the same way that the they return homo to the kingdom
erssee a line we have written, and levelled to the simplest understand- little stone cut out of the mountain of God to go out no more to battle
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from what it writes its readers
ing; and it is only by banishing without hands, that is, Christ built with sin, -stay at home with God to
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could never so much as guess what hierophantic" mysteries and schol­ or started his kingdom or church enjoy perpetual peace after the
the issue between us is! Its whole astic subtietie, which they may on earth before the complete down­ last enemy has been destroyed,
object is to throw dust into the air have nicknamed Christianity, and fall of the Roman Empire; but at which is death. The ground that
infant baptism in the New Testa­
ment households except mere
inference ? Let us enlighten the
Advocate a little by teaching it how
to argue its question. Dr. A. T.
Bledsol, one of the brightest lights
that ever shone iif the Methodist
Church before hrs death, writing in
the Methodist Quarterly Review on
this subject says: “It is an article
of our faith that the ^aptism of
y^n’g^cTnWeh’rhTfaiits) Is In any
wise to be retained in the Church,
as most agreeable to the institutions
of Christ. But yet with all our
searching, we have been unable to
find, in the New Testament, a sin-
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