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CA.Wi'VEU^_ the efficacy of Christ’s blood, received ’ This faith .glso ia au obedient faith. and ehjdye.l wholly by faith; that the : No one can really love the dying Christ, ■4Ksr aa< Pefallsher. gUOUFblXD OM «MA1HNÜ TUX HF.NDERSO -CAMP- BBL.L-HNLAYS<t\ CtiNT 1..1VFH8Y. •* and believe him to he the Lord of glory, _______ . ............ tru;? sense, of the GVeek words used by Office under Good Templar’s Hall, Monmouth. and not, have the spirit of obedience, mH Wonldst dispute the vanquisher Af ▼An.pimhers? - -the Apostle Peter in Acta 2: 3R, is not I leading to oonsocnetion, to parity, to toe hope, to« veryjbeaoon «tap Mel the ligbl lig| “iu order tb'the remission bf sins;” nor, TERMS— IN ADVANCE Î Of all l'nt lUfiMgenee! Tlie «tayr the ?er.y heart akin onr common version, "for the re-\ ! loving devotion. — One Copy for one year ........*........ Of that crest niperstrticture, which w«s reared mission of sins,” which to tlie ordinary A PARAI.EL P a BSAOB. By the niotlMy thedlogisu* of Westminister j » <» > - öx: •'*’ *" reader carries the same meaning. In conclusion, it may ba useful to no ADVBBTISING RATES Î Afid by trslfition and noia’» discipline DisciPEn' v«4w mot M«w. Mule sepced. and haudul down to ■«. Foé 3 mot. 6 moe. 9 moe. tice a p.issage —having no tvfarenaa £> »ISO »St • C«rd. .............. SB If»! tflF prop whleli doth repair die ravages of It^ieserv'ps to be stated that this view f the ordinance of bapti-oa—where the « Í» 1« H column , W , J time. _M______ JB . » X column.. . W same wojd» are used ; «« qpAerin Aoaiar- of baptism as a condition of ✓ forgive- ‘ \ «ílumn X .10 W .5S And other tens) denomin»tiom!~k*6rm*— ~ I key <5f their position. It certainly does ■tear: It is a highly tropical expression boos for (into) the remission of sins ness is not at all ]>eciiliar to the Disci- < coininn column. ........ ... -.34 34 «S 9tì KD With scripture; which I torture into mortar, The ueual coi»niÌMÌ<m.allnwed U> Advertieing Wherewith I stop the seam» pies, nei/her has it^ver been held l>y ; govern the situation; the interpretation designptl to sot 'forth ths loaobitig of It is Matt.xxvi, 29 where Jeans »ay» at w U Agente <m above rate*. of the other texts being doubtful and bspti»ni—it« doctrinal relation to the Which my opponent* would feign make believe the Holy Supper; “ This is my blood of professing Cbyirttans to be i^iieresy. greatly dependent on the construction Trinity, to Christ, to hia death, to the TRAWSTBNT ADVEBTISEMHN rS: Were made by their King'arguments. tho New Testament which ia shed for The Romish, Greek, Armenian, Eng Per Square, (13 linee, or le**), fot When John the given here. l- ' forgiveness of sina. Infant baptism, i* it? Tis right; and. forsooth. many for the remission of sins" express »4 so lish. Eutherftn, and some of o’tir Airer- fini Insertion ........ ............. The controversy on the Desigii of Baptist is said historically to have ’ bap 1 oo Why ? Tie not in the bnok, dial I acknowledge. Fur each Hubeequent insertion. .).... that truth here; and if they do so here, Bnt—well—I-a-a-y, Bat; but, yes, well, bat yea ican Protestant clinreh.es, give the state- Baptism, then narrows itself down to tized his oonvert« into the Jordan—lit- Advertising, and all other business, in this °(~ they do so also in it> Acts ii, 28. 1 rnentjn their symbols that' “baptism !« . ■ eTruth to tell: - -■ . V floe, will lie done on the Cont lewis.' Currency 'tlijs: “Did John the Baptist Iwfitize in ■ wrally dipped them- into Jordan—we • • We answer: While the fact’ of thé Uulesa we have this ak a story,_ _ for tile remissidn .of sins,' ,“ 4 generally f WiU be taken At the Usual diwonnt. •have the bare aud literal fact. When ‘ order V ]«i'rdbn? DldFeter command. Advertising must be paid for in advance, un shedding of the blood of Juauk as1 an lieason, with its inroads fell. accompanied by such exegeticrtl state less credit is given by special agreement. ' the Penter osrinn von veita to lie bap- { he is said to Imptize into repentance, Will "undermine arid sap away— . 7 “ u indispensable condition of forgiveness ments as show they regard the wotda to 1 - 1 ' ' And down will come our church pdll-mell . meari'Tcdndltnjtl '¿d' KT’l'rtitraifr 'd&id . tized~ni cyder to pardon ?—The ;.Disci-' we have a tropical use of language ¡a elsewhere plainly revealed and con- pies «JlirtM this; the Baptist« very gSl- ' wliich literally rnians t<! (ITp Into a sub stantly reiteruted, yet thia passage un Mind! infanta they Are einnen born. ., in the interpretation of Acts 2: 38,as — stance. “ To dip a child ” into the sea erulty deny. The-writer of this essay T. fa fa the cue of our refrain. der consideration doe« %ot assert it. meaningin V--- order to forgiveness, there 1 % • lie)is'<»that th^^ffirmutive podtiqu— j convey» to us a"plain and literal image; Thin reach st ndon, and night, and morn; Jesus says: “This is my blood of the are S£>me diames of eminence, even • Agents for Christian Messenger. ¡ whether taken^HHbiociples, other Pro-ri “|o dip < penitent ’man Into Christ, into On niountain,-valley, hill and plain. ‘ New Testament poured into, the for- among Baptists—'fs<-e Dr. Hackett’s and , A I . .z* 1 I . ■ .. i . “ m , 'Or ..S’ UV lit r bin death.'Tnto lita body, into the par WNttmiB, RTtytllprll IrSTre- rtlTjJXlCWU " givêriess'of'sins for many, Tldiighry fig Get them with ub while they're young. Prof.-Ripley's commentaries on Acts The following gentlemen are authorized4e-wt some eminent Bapt;sta- -is an exhgelical ^. don of sins,” is undonb'feijly highly Make them think that we are‘right ; ii: 28)—who give precisely 'the «xeget- ! urative and mvstical expression, which —' as Agents for the M khsksokb : mixtake; that the original Greek does poetic and figHrative language, but its Roar them thus with iir among; declares no more than that into the ical interpretation for -which, the Dis 1 Montana« This fa at least, three-fourths the fight. tropical use ought to convey no idea uot justify it;- and that our present fathomless o.xean of God's forgiriag cipies 'contend—’’baptjsm in order to J W. K. Roberts, Helena. Montana TArritory. ? 1 English version of Aeta ij, ^18, aud kin-*' L. radically different from its literal iwe. ; • .^TienTet Parson “B.” and CainpbelFabont, -love Jesus pours his bloid. We can Saa Franc I m -<». the forgiveness of sins." Apd tfne o{ : dred passages, conveys a wrong impres It must uever lie forgotten that the rad That we are wrong and they are right; riot learn the doctrine of fire atonement C. V incent » Broker, ifctfiCalifornia »t., fa oar our modern Protestant versions (tho F sion, aud is greatly responsible for the ical idea of Itaptistp >H a' dipping into. Mind, we know what we’re atxmt— authonwd Agent in Hsn Mancfaco. from thi».my«ti6al expression. In any French of David Martin) translates' r And thfa, you know, fa half thé figM. dpctnnaj disagreement. Henco its relations to Christ, to his Orrg«MB. «•use the two expressions can never be Acts ii: 38: “Amewdej row«,>»et 7«? , j* O bü ERVTÇB. . 1 death, to parilon„to his body, would ,.,«e ■ ' EXEOESIri OF ACTS 11, 3H. . Independence J. B. Churchill .. ^regarded as taring parallel in meaning, chafunfle roux ■ snif- baptise-ten wnu 4U- natural]^ find pxpressi.ip in inch ex Jahn B<> ub 4 s d Starr -' Pyiut, Jaano-Connty THK KELAT1OM OF BAJPTISSL TO. t thongh exactly similar in word, The Greek words translated, “Be bap r ' - — - — ' Jesns Christ, pour obtenir IfT“ prirdou dr Aniltv, Yamhill County ■.WilHamS ...' THE FORGIVEVESR OF SIM<« pressions is baptizing into these. tized for the remission Of sins, ” are «< ros ,v«'Ae» — Repent, and be liaptjzed -l^OMOLrslO'«. Charles Woods ........ 8elcm, Marlon JVH'liri. ATION IS VCREPT OF FAITH a Wm. Dawtum McMinville, Yamhill [By Tho«. T. Mcliah, Editor of the Journal every one of you in the name of Jesns Rapti»thetoo ri* «pAerin hamartioon. The These thoughts are’offered in the sin ’ Dallas. Polk . God give a systeqi of law tax the Jews T. B. Newman and Messenger.. Cingiiuuiti. 0.1 .7^- 1 Christ, to obtain thw pardon of yonr inquiry turns on the mcauing and force cere and fraternal desire that they may s. Cmatills Z W. A. Whitman . The Very fraterpal and Q'hristian ap sins.". Of-course,ever so much authority of the preposition ein- in conneptioB whose cardina. principle was: “Helhat be naefnl .in solving a doctrinal oontro- *■................. JaJbson U Wm. Murphy. proach of-the Disciples to tlie Baptiata, does not prove a wrong exegesis right; with Briptiiain. Does the «.«!r*Z(Mttenj/i ' iVa-Hi these things shall live/ The Iw er«v. w hich lia« diyidrfd Tlie Immaf- Davfa Buena Vista. Folk at the Ohio Convention in 1R70, which' but« fact likd this onghtto mitigate the of thaKew Te'stalnenV justify or allow by reason of sin witsa failure ay a plan siqnists of’the -west into two nearly L.-wi»viUri> Polk David Lewfa i.o. one ,wiw over jnsti- equal parts. May the good Spirit of sucn •rendering as “be baptized for/ , of justification ;/><> was ntijtt cordially and fraternally re asperity of sectarian conflict. ................... Tillamook o. D. Powell rfect oliedleuie. _. Then The Dalles, Oregon. 1 ceived, has invested the doctrinal dif- or in order tpT" Tljfe proper way is ; ffed by bis wrie.i Troy Bbt-Hy, ■ ' ^ OBJECTIONS. _ : Christ overrule, all .fbr his glory, «nd N. B. BriggH, Corvallfa The" grave objections which lie evidently to marshal rilrSie passages in G<sl I>re>y gbt dn the gospel ; aud wluit the sprèmi of his truth; and give us all ferences of,Baptists and Disciples with J. M. Bmilh, Harrfaburg, r.Akanfc'-,' d >M “that t4aphal«la spi-itS, hrerti n»Wn»eood by morii than usual interest, and made a against the doctrine of “baptism in or win1' the preposition Hx «'used in co.n- is the gospel I t4 DrTw. H. Rowlahd......... Bror.npriHe. They are not Christ died far aur sins, according to (Kejudic* aud unclouded by paaaion. I demand for d kinder and more courte- der tn Die forgiveness of sins” in‘ Ha nA tliin with baptize. J. W. Hhelkm North Yifiihill,' . “ lt minds of moat Baptista are briefly these: very numerous, and below will lie found B the scriptures. ” This is itsfirstand prin /All Christian Preachers in Oregon, California p.padiscussion of these differences. 1, Jit-(tritlev nf the BlMe. 1st. If baptism l>e a condition of for- | an example of overv case found in the cipal article, This gospel that “Christ 4 1«, therefore, not iu a polemic spirit and Washington Territory are requested to act aa Agents for the Ogium iw MrsarN'H B, to re but actuated by a supreme desire to givencss to the sinner, it ought to be ri New Testament, omitting duplicate pas Listed death for every man, ' is to be A " Reader" Qcf Zkm » Har*ld. sum* ng Ibe preached to every crest nr« us good HUtistu> of th« Bible; thus: ceive »nd receipt for subscriptions and forward clarify the issues, and, if possible, to clearly revealed. So far from this be- sages for,the sake of brevity: the names. lite Sk i iptunH hare* t»en tr<uv»iai«d into one lesson the doetrinal differences of thè ing the cashf-it rests on the authority of ,» * »-• • ». • » a^'« • '• • news, and it must l>e believed. l>efore hundred aud forty-eLntlau|pAige^ aud diaioci«, /great and rapidly increasing family <>t T't’olat^d texts, whose meaning is in’per- Peter said^o the-penitent Jews on any due is'fit for baptism—believed with yf wmftlt t*iie UuFKlreaTTid twonty-one h«d, prior Immersipniats, that the following paper ! ’ potiml dinpnte among Christians.- 1 îusineijtN < 'arris. j the Day of Penteeoiti “Repent, apd' be all the heart -.the «(hole afTeitions of to (he fornutiuu -of tlfa “ Bnunii and Forotgu Hiblu-bv‘CieUeti. ' never »pixxrod. And tweuty- on the relation of baptism to the for- 2d. Christ, in Ms own person"! minis ; baptized .every one of you in" the naniie our naturd must seize the truth that Je- uvy <?f tivse lauguageM exinteil without an al • . h, . stis died for ns-took ourplaceiand bore phabet, in au oral iui.iu. Upwardsuf.forty-thrta givpness of sins has been prepared. try, never required baptism as A condi ’ ofjesus Christ info’ Hie remission of J LINSEY HILL/ M D , totllkm« '.»f those copie* t Godfa Word are cxr- our punishment — paid our debts and tion of forgiveness in a single instance. 1 sins. ” In this li§ gives an inspired culaLed aiuong-not leb- titan six bundrd million« .JMPOBTANCB oj THE Ql’ESTION. Physician and Surgeon, of people. . If John the Baptist baptised in order to model for all gospel preaeliers. .We all leaves us nothing’to pay. Ber*» Virtk : : : : O kfoon The drd division <xf- th«* Divine Orders into This question forms one of the chief i forgiveness, . and the Apostles, after r .iapturs aud verses, fa attr ibuted to Stephen This is the gospel, and ’ must be be may and must direct all truly ]>eniteut Formerly practiced with lì. C Hilt, M. D.. differences Iietwyen these two families I izuugtun. Archbisuup of < >a^terl»ury, iu (he . Pentecost al ways baptized inorder to ami believing souls to.be baptized into lieved in order to baptism, flu^ when reign Albany Jl/Z, of King Juiiu, iu the fat tor pari of the of Immersionists. Indeed, in the judg- cehtury, or beginning of toe thirteenth. ■ ment of the writer, the principle Jif- ( forgiven^«, it is strange thAt the minis the poglou of sins; but uot for, or in it is Ixjii-ved, the sbul uedessarily walks twelfth Cardinal Hugo, in tiie middle of the thirteenth out of the prison-house of self conde-m- ('brrvury-.'dkvuted tne Old i esuuuppt into chav JJiO. J. HALT, ferences may be narrowed down to two;v' try of the Savior should not follow the order to pardon. So that "if" the Disci te' s a* tiic.v. stkud iu our transiatioiC In 1661, plea will cease tellitiS"pebitente to Ire nation. same rule. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND NOTARY PI TWBy the Work of the Bpirit in conversion, ' Aduus, a Jdw of Amsterdam divided the sectioa 3d. Tlje Apostle Paul, who was spec baptized in order to partion, and unite •■I'-ite- Ne> <J)t»tament does not repre ni Hagu mu»'verses-; a Eroncn printer had pre- and the Design of Baptism. Upon the 1 Buses Vista, : : : : : Polle County v tofisly 11561), divided toe New Testament, into ially fitted, both by the Holy Spirit and sent God as living tuts unreconciled to with Us in telling them, with Peter, to work' nf ttre'Spirit the prospect seems ' »71 verse* 1^ they now are. natural endowments, to be the be baptized into pardon',. we may join to the Vorld, although receiving the Tne-Did testament contains 3'J )x*oks chap hopeful that the chrism will be bridged; great ’ of Christians — the theologian hands in a common olredience to the pride of Christ's offering; bnt as^being , ters. 33 214 ver^ea, 5V2.4 N words. 2.736.10» that upon the just scriptural statement teacher 1 letters. N. L. IM’TLER. rue*N«w Testament contains 27 books, 260 that regeneration is the product of both of ' the gospel —gives ns two or three authoritative example of the inspired reconciled. Every ' man's sins arc at ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 7,950 verses, words, 931,360 Galatians, and per ', a|x>stle, to whom were given the keys toned for; aud all lie needs to make him chapters, the personal Spirit of God and the epistles-Romans, * ¡utters. Palla»............................................. - Pregar Word of God—the one as the Agent. haps Toe entire Bible contains46 b-kiks, 1,189 chap happy is to-believe it. Hence, faith Hebrews—whose burden is toteach of the kingdom oTheaven. ' 2:tf. ter*. 31,173 vert«to, 737,692 words, 3,661.ib0 its<“Jf is Ij it |>rei-ante-J as a condition of letters. _____ ---- f ami the other ae the Instrument—I with J how the sinner is justified before God. - And.no a, having a word that proper Tne name-Jehovah or Lord, occurs 6,8S5 times and never is baptism mentioned as one ly gives us the meaning of the original obtain« forgiveness, bnfooly at a means parries will ultimately, perhaps very in toe Old 1 estament. '------------ of the conditions. Th« silence of jhe Greek, 10 lis ascertain its doctrinal oUknowiu« and enjoying it. It must T. A. MeBIiJDr. The word •»nd occurs in the Old Testament soon, conre r< > stand rn doctrinal har 35,5f8 times. A - . Epistles when speaking on the specific ■ value. Wha^is tlie doctrinaTmeaning have this „rice necessarily. ,'Tne gov- ' Attornoy-at-Law, mony. The middle book of the Old Testament fa I subject of forgiveness to ■ mention bap of being baptized into the forgiveness ernor might have made out a pardon for Proverbe. THE DISCIPLE»' VIEW. OFFICE IN THE COURT H0U8E, t chapter im the XHh of Job. tism, is a convincing evidencejlftt Paul of sins? It. is clear that it does not,] every man in the penitentiary, bnt if h« 10:tf • LArarrrrz, O moon . Upon the Desjgn of Baptism, on the «erue < b II Curou. xi, 17. did no| consider baptism, one of the mean that these people were to receive did not believe it or would not walk out b «»% uf iti« New IV m toman t fa II other hand, tlierte seems at present no Tha«d amans. nf prison, of whit value would it be? ' conditions, I prirdou by being baptized. Look now prospect of harmony. Upon nothing chapter» are tornan*, xifa and xál W. C. WARINNER, M. IL, - Faith is indiapensible to knowing and versa is Acts w, ¡. • ; t - WHAT DO*THZ SCBIPTT'HES TEK >1? at all the passages Bgain, ands e wheth are the Disciple« more united tlian on >4 middle chipicr an i the leirtin enjoying the atfonemont Christ has Physician and Surgeon, er in any oase the naan which follows tue Bible fa IMum* i, 17., the doctrine that baptism is a condition But these reasons, while Very force- made for ns; but baptism has no such i verse in ttw) Bible, Baalm* cxix. A. Bethel. Folk County, firegon. of forgiveness to a believing penitent; ’ ful to Baptiste, are not so to the Disci the preposition ei» refers to anything line in tut- Bible fa li Carwwte relation to our justification; and neither the subjects wete to receive. John ’ s ir, 16. that justification is not by faith without ples. They claim that certain texts FT" OFFICE- At reaulenoe near Bethel. 5:tf The verse in the OM Tefafnont, -if I it nor faith are in the usual sense con converts did not receive re|>entance by baptism, but by faith and baptism; that- • here, and there certainly teach that bap (7n ron vibri i i, t _ 1. being baptized into it. When John ditions for obtaining it. i'he ictal V0ne m the Bible fa John xi, M J. E. DAVIDSON, M. D., ” Iwptism is to be administered in order tism 'is to l>o administend ip order to dipped penitents into the Jordon, it was Tlfis, then, is the mistake which the t Ji Kingri xir, and Ieaiaii xyivi, «re tuo natii «. to forgiveness; that the true sense of the forgiveness (if sins; therefore, the In ine« 2i»»t vere» chap' vii uï Ezi«, ««-« all the Disciples have made, in our'judgment. lottern uf too alpihUMU I *ud J "(kMWiderod an Physician and Surgeon, Peter’s direction to the oonvicted Jews personal acta of JesUs while nn eaTth, npt for the purpose of «Wallowing a »H1U. • 'T ‘ Independence, . A Oregon. on Pentecost Day (Acte 2, 38J, is: .“Re Were the exercise of his own unlimited poHion of the stream. Wi|en the great They conceive of God as remaining nn i’ho Apocrapha ti«4 inspired. bataohxytimM forgiving Jtnwaid each individual sinner bound iietweeu tiieUid Tasta maul »ml th« New) commission directs that all believers pent, and be baptised every one of you sovereignty, and exceptional; ami that Ort. lftth, im 2rtf. contain!» 11 bGok*. IM- C3»pkin<, lti.Jhl v^rw*«. nntil certain conditions are complied' 152,18j wunfax________ .. _1 ¿1______ in the nan)e of Jesus Christ, In order to if Paul did not mention lxptisru with shall be baptized into the name of the i'nu proood ng fuels wore oacortoined by a g«B> the remission of siha, and. ye shall re faith as conditions<of the sinnpr’s jns-" Triune God, it is not something they . with; then he become’ reconciled, and tlemtn iti J7IH. Also tv an English mao feaid- J. R. SITES, M. 1).,. ceive tliegift of the Holy Spirit.” They tification, it ,’i* always implied. They are to receivs,—When the Jews were exercises pardon then and there toward intf at A iistordaiD in 17»2, aud it is »aid to ba^a ra.Aen tmeb gsatMinan nearly three years in tba Physician and Surgeon f do not teach that there ia any—merit in quote the langnage of Jesus to Nicode baptised ■ into Moses, just aa when the sinner. On the other hand the inveriLigition. scriptures say: “ God was in Christ, re- , nhi'tetian* are now bA'ptized into Christ, Dall**, - - • - liiere m a Bible in toe library of the Uwiwr- OrrgoM. baptism or in faith, but that justifica mus, “Except a tian be born of water conciliti« thè world unto lwn«<»lf, noi «oj <jf Oomngen, «nino 1 ou 5,i7t> palm toarw. tion is purely of grace, faith and bap and of the Spirit, he can not entqr into into his death, into hi« body, in no ITT" Offiee al his residence. IM _ __ irnev _ ___ i«-5 mila. . , . ’ « A . * _. # 1° wa» 331 irtyinting their sins —- I mum nnto nnto th"m Iltero we . slotarh A riibbaih ri.,'« day’s journey vnasboui aa Englisb tism being “conditions of appropria the Kingdom of Grid;" the term's of tl^e crise does it express as the trrmiumi <id Ptlnutinir •nade. • ■ do not h;ive to presell to moo t<* <lo any tion," of God’« own appointment. Commission; “He that believeth and is quem some |ien>onal favor which the Ezekiel’s reed vnaaiarao feet, nearly. j. h, oouimf- thing to reconcile Goil to them; but to A ben-te breedih » equal to tarso and i*a- Neither do they- -teach that faith and baptized shall be sgved;" the direction baptised receive in the act. 4'h’OR’irrANÏiWù.NSMLLOB AT LAW believe thafhe i* reeon-iled already, and eignt inches. ' So Acts' ii, 38, does not teach that A oubli tit JÌ inches, nearly baptism are essential to the soul's sal- ( of Ananias to Saul; "Arisb and bw bap taallaa...,,................ ... Oreg**- thus reconcile their own aleniated hearts A flngor's breadth » »{'tel to one inch. vation— conditioo^t nine ’qui» non —in ; tized, and wash awaydhy sius;" Peter’s thy'believing'Jews should be baptized A Mbasal »( silver was shout Bftjr osale. to hire, v(ihrist has given hi« life a ran- 3^ Special attention given' to Probat« map A shesal Z«old wee «S« __ ►nt, Lra, Collection», Heal Fatale, anil general prao- the «elise that God may not exercise his statement, “Baptism -doth also now in order to be pardoned of their sins. M>m for all nfen^all tbit any man needs A teloni O1 e&ver was ÿl.Slg SB. Hce. . sovereign mercy toward those who have , save us;" Paul’, to Titus; "According Nothing indeed is said of their individ A taluni of gold vniFMI RO». nl-tf is,«, tull.v believe this truth—to em I neither faith nor baptism, if he pleases; to his mercy he saved us; by the wash- ual »ins. Although the Disciples quote A Piece of silver or a penny Wee IS seal brace it with hi« affection«— and tho re- W farthing was thrpe rants. 1. VtiriTABD. bnt that these conditions are all we are big of regeneration, and renewing of tho the passages continually Ba if it road: A gundi wee one oeht. anlt-mnst lie pei«M with God through “ Be baptised in the iiaiuw of Jeans ATTORNEY AND COUNRELIXÌR AT LAW. 1 authorized to state as revealed will of Holy Ghoet ” Bnt the Thermopylae of «M»r Isa^Jsii-ns Christ. Ho who <lne« God. 1 Pallas ........................... Oregvta. the discussion— the narrow pa” into Christ for the remission of yonr «ins,” j - -ft. not revive cimfori from the thought THE BAPTIST TIBW. which the whole battle converges —is nothing of the sorj appears in the text. (Gr Special attention given to Collection», that (Jhrist ba« ]wiid hi« dolit does not I •nd to matten pertaining to FUal Estate. On the other hand, tn nothing ^re | tho expression of Peter in Acts ii: ¡if: They were to he - baptized" into tike re- « n I tf believe it. _ .mi ’ »ioa of sins; and the u*u* loquendi Baptiata more united than in the dental “Rejient, and be baptized every one of TAlTH COMFREUENSIV«, ' . of these affirmative positions.—They you', in the name of Jeans Christ, for demands that we shall give no. more r ‘ J. A. APPLEOATE. - Tba faith whioh appropriate« the st- teach that justification ia by faith with- (by which 'Disciples understand in or- pera-iual applicalioH td tho, wArds than ATTORNEY AND COÜNREL1.OR AT LAW. ualha kiudead- pb ia s e i, - b a pl i»a i tal e tuuiiueili ill J««u«, non e «wari ly i n S lnd aa. uiii-teozka either Xhrish m—fffrrte’-* ffiW trfl"the fomfWfBnref-srni asonnd stety <rf «be Court House, •The Diaci pi«« urge'very jn»tly that if rv|H»ntance—into the name of.Fatti<r, repentan<xt~it i« a repentant faith iaits 1 tian law, that baptism is a fruit of jns- i N° "na <um truly bellava . tifidatinn frzgbteonwuc*«); and noh a Peter t« vhojn th* keys of the king- ' Ron aud Holy Spirit -InM th* Jordan very Wstepa» * ; > ra Fublfahed every Haturdav by Wiittenfor thè Messenger.] 'iw y • dom of heaven were given, aud acting —into Christ—into hik death—-into his under the miraculous endowment« of body—into M oros in th« cloud and in the Holy" Spirit, on the vet'y day when- Lb*- aefla Therefore wo oo nnlnd* th a t the visible Chtxrch of God Was formally Christian1 baptism ia into Christ', into constituted; did interpret his cotnmis- his death, into hia body, into forgive sion to" mean that convicted Isiuners,- ness; but it ia not in order that the bay>- arying out" “What shall we do-?” should tiscd.may-c^oeiv« any onex>f these. b.- directed to baptism in order to fgr But thia i* merely negative If our givgneas, then we all ought to do the view is correct, the Discip1«« are wrong' jm teaching bap- same We -have —no right to deviate i n regardjng t his text * from so authoritative an example 'BN aii tian) att a condition of fergivemwa. o>- i-ion so unique. The interest they Imt; then, is the affirmative idea iu- siion in the interpretation, of this pas -vv<lived in the expression, “Be haptins] sage proves that they regard it as the into tho forgivoue«« of «in« ?" We an ! I I j. *.* 7 I » / «* * 'X » r». • "l » ’ t r