Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-01
Morning Session.
TUESDAY, Apm s. 8 AN


Opening prayer Dy Rev. Mr.. EnnEr.
Rev. Mr.. CAPLES. The gentleman
calls upon me for Il reason why we apply
sprinklng to the forehead, in preference to
any other para OF the body. And in reply
to my explanations, ,hal it i, the seillng oi
Coos servant, IA the forehead, declares that
he remembers no sealing mentioned il the
Bible, except The mark oi the beast. Ii he
is not IL better man at the close of this dis.
cu,sion, by the hel OF Go! he sha'i be Il
wiser one | refer him to ~ Cor. i, -
"Who hath also sealed us, and ii en- the
earnest Ol the spirit in our hearts" | desire
tue gentleman 10 note IL. Eph. i, l3. ain
whom ye also trusted, after that Sc heard
the word Of truth, the gospel of your sal
vatiOn: in whom also, after that ye believed
ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit OF
promise" Let the gentleman put that in
his note book. There is no mention here,
OF the sealing of the beast. but seaiing mt,
the day 0i REDEMPrIoN.-Rev wi. 3. "Say-
ing, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor
the trees. ill we have sealed the servants
of our God in their ioreheads." will the
gcn,Ieman call this the sealing of the
beast! Will he now pray TO besdev.
cred from sealing in the forehead =
God grant him better knowledge of
the Bible and that he may have this
sealing in his forehead! (Voce-AmenD
wish it to be impressed upon his mimi, Mat
there is a scaling Of tie SERVANTS of Goi il.
their toreheads; that there is seating not OF
the beast, tina. he may nerer pray again the
prayer he uttered last evening.
L. L..
criticisms, and complains that | have no,
noticed them. did think, that as they
were so futile, he would have been glad to
have them passed over. The active tran
sative verb bap is always dip with him
He says that in place OF baptism the ac.
tive transi,ive verb sprinkle would not do
because you cannot sprinkle man. and
illustrates by saying, in the phrase. "! ea,
a rock," the action is one which the obiec
is not capable OF receiving. This is moi
the difficulty, however, the object is entire
ly capable OF receiving the action, provi
ded the gentleman is capable of perform
ing it! l am sorry the gentleman ha.
thought proper TO urge this futile argu
ment. What when Paul says shave YOU
hearts sprinkled from an evil con>cence,'
ale we to understand that he means the,
are to be torn from US, scattered, severe,
and divided To be Christians must W,
be made hearlless Let me turn now t,
my good old Lexicon. Heb. ix, 10, 81
"For when Moses had spoken every pre-
cepi 10 all the people according To The law
he took the bo0d oi calves and of yoa'
with water, and scarlet wool, ana hy,Srv
and sprlnkled both the book and III IA,
people"
"Moreovcr, he .prinkiei Iik wi,o wl!:
blood bntn the table nacie. and al, the We
sells of the ministry"
WHAT are the objects which receive IN
action o sprinkle in lhi. quotation! tabel
nacle and vessels of the MuiSIry, are gov
erned by the rlive tran-itve verb sprinhiga
Are they solid or are they tinid but TN
gentleman would have both The tables an,
vessels broken up, shivrrcd, and> scattered
The children OF lsrae! were frequently sprirl
kled with the water OF publication; at eas
al! who were unclean.
The gentleman would have Joshua, in
stead Of fulfilling his ismisson, OF leading tn
children OF Israel into the promised lane
ever gathering them up and scattering thel
abroad. would not weigh one thousnn
instances Of such trilling as these grammat