Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-08
Afternoon Session.
TUESDAY, April s., p. NJ
PRAYER by Rev. Mr.. itusI.


Mr.CAPLES Tba gentlemen say '''i
oplv small portion .! The 'nhlm.1"' Fl, ''
those countries wa, baptized ~ Join' "'
3jble saws "Jeruslicm alt all jaIel "'! d"
the countries round about Jotdan, cam
to Johns baptism. There is II sense in
which the phrase "the people, or "'he IN
habitan,s," ma, be used, without meaning
ever, individual. For instance, we say
"the people elected the President v: we do
no, mean all the people, but onlya major
i,y. So, when it is said all the people
round Jordan, or the people about !oraan'
we do not suppose that every inhlV'doa'
but majority OF the people is meant. Al
the lowest estimate, there mast have been
three millions baptized in ten months.
There is no proof that John baptized one
mt a time; nor is it necessary to Imagine, rs
the gentleman !ace,ously suggests, that
lain had recourse to a syringe-he had no
use for it. Moses took scarlet wool and
hvs,dp, and sprnklcd the people, bap',%'nS
the same number that John did. John
followed the rule, dipping the hySsoP IN
water, and sprinkling them the same way
Moses did. | re.assert that 1t was not IN
the range Of Johns commission, To eStao'
lish new ordinances, or to subvert old laws
The gentleman contends that John al
ways baptized in rivers, or streams ot Wa
ter. In John X, 40, it is said that Jesus
went "bevond Jordan, into the place where
John at frs. baptized" So, then, it was
not IN Jordan, but bcyond Jordan. that John
baptized. In proof of my declaration, that
John had no right to establish new ord
nances, read the 4lst verse:--" John dld
no miracle, but all things that John sPake
of this man were true" 1t would have
been folly for John to undertake to eStab-
lish a new order Of things, among a people
who were SO tenacious Of ancient customs,
unless he had wrought miracles, to prove
that lie had authority from Heaven.
have passing remark to make on the
case of the cloud and sea. The gentleman
thinks the water from the cloud was poured
on, on TIE Egyptians, and no. ON the Is,
raeli'es. 1t must be confessed he has found
one case of immersion no action there,
but certainly an immersion But yet not
content, as if there were not water enough
in the Red Sea to drown the Egl p,ian9, h
must have the windows ol heaven "prn'i 'i
and rain poured on, in torrents upon lh'm
The gentleman draws upon Mr. Camp
bells rule again, and thinks II rIdIcn,oi' +"
substitute sprinkle ioI baplze " 'ie tnh
beieve,h and is Spriat'ct." 'S' SHAFT h'
baoi= many nations ".'' N''h Inc me-
,inus. Inn i-iur lhen." "tip ;-tnu iNy nt-
tions, sDirnki.ng them" Now, 10 N m'ni
ench OF these sentence, j. micH more yea
souable than the following: $40 'r'c.
all nations, dippiag Them and no' 50 bl.
(rrprnllnI.
preach the Gospel To all nations is CON
mand TO he obeyed where there Is 'nuc'
water, and where there Is little.
The passage have bap'izlng to b'
baptized WITH" &c, the gentleman woul.
render, 81 have a dipping to be diPpsd w''h
fare you able to be diPped IN the dtp
ping am dipped in! !" That's DR.. Hop'on,'
good sense Of the passage lie not onl.
dips them in Jordan; but dips them in
dipping
In the matter of propositions, | have give
him the widest range, | have allowed h'm I"
the latitude hs desired; yet he fails t" e'tahli'
HI. point. at and by are as literal translation
Of en- a. in. But with tho fullest scope OF III
nriy,lepe, to translate them his own way, II
fails TO prove immersion with them In ever
instance it will make the passage read with IN
same proprie:y to substitute at Tor M In
"Hs baptized al Jordan, makes a' good sens
As the ether reading: "ho baptized IN Jo
dan"
The ,sntem,n's argument on burial, WI
next notice. Romans vi, 4, is quoted Sy III
a. evidence that immersion alone IS bap'ls'
"Therefore we arc buried with him, by bapl''
into death, that like as Christ was raised
from the dead, BY the glsry OF the fsVs
even 90 We cleo should wslt 10 asw"e's
lifs." He shinks li,svsl assning ssssahss
all those words. Several questions arise her
"Thersfora we are immersed with him, by ba
tism into death" First, the question: is o
baptism barialp The act of buryins in t
common acceptation Of tho term, and the act
dipp,ne, are some wha, different. Would y
speak Of person having been buried in 81
Greek by DR.. Morton, if Mr., Rush were be
Gzed by him in Bear Creek ? To state Il
fact, would prove no literal bury'ng unle
we use the term il sense not in common u