Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-29
CITY OF HANNIBAL, MO-, MAY %, 1851.

Jewish church was pcrpetuai; that long before
Christ, God had Sc, up the Kingdom, is over
thrown by John the Baptist: in those days
came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilder.
ness, AMI saying, Repen, yt; Tor the Kingdom
Of Heaven is 1t hand" NJ! says the gentle
man. the church is already set up it was set up
| 500 years ago! When Christ, John, tie
Twelve, and the Seventy said vas a5ou, 10
be set NJ they were mis,aken-n unfortunately
they wctt ignorant that it was already set up!
CHRIST, al ,res.ing his disciples sand, Pear net
! little nort, for it is your Fathers good pleasure
10 give ,un the Kingdom. Luke, xii, 81 The
disciples lad been Jews, and not culy this, the
Law am he Prophets were preached until John
preachr,. the coming o.: the Kingdom Of Heav
On, and announced that it wa, at hand Luke
xvi, l6; Mat. ri, II, l3. Upon the truth.
which should be believed and confessed that
Chris, i, the Son Of God, we must rest, as the
fundamental truth. Chrst' disp,nsation is the
"Be,t.r Church."
In Gal /, l3, Paul speak, Of tie Jewish re-
/ leion AMI Christian religion in anti,hc,s, say
ing that, while protesting the former lie porse
cu'gI tho Church oi God, and wasted it. lie
is sleaking of the Christian Church. nnd con
tra,,, il with the Jewish Church. affirm the
Churches are not ideUtlcal. Christ said TO Me
odemu Except You be bora OF water and OF
the Spirit you csnno, enter the Church oi God"
MAR Il no, tha, said unto thee, ye mus, be
born again" Nicolomus was member Of ID,
Jewish church; bn, no one was ever considered
u member OF the Christian church, on uccoun,
Of being member Of the Jewish church. B,p
tism is not in the room of circumcision. In no
instance, under the old dispensa,icn, were faith
and repentance necessary TO gain admttauce in.
to the church. In every instance in the New
Testament, both are made prerequisite, to bap-
+ tsm, and are always connected with it. IN
der the old li.prnsa,ion they were born Jews
+ and circumcisel b. cause they were Jews. Cir
cumcisiun was a seal TO Abraham, and 10 IT,,
: Jews sign. Baptism is to infant, neither
seal nor sign.
The frs, time the gospel was preached
Christ gave the EeJ sto Peter, TO open the New
b Church But in this first preaching to lh
= Jews, we hear nothing OF baptism in the rcou
, Vt circumcision. Why baptize those who wer
already Jopiicca - circumcsed? In Act., w.
we have the result Of council Of the Apostle
and Elders, to CO, nd this very matter. Their
= had been a dispute al Antioch, as 10 whether
I was necessary that Christian, should be cir
y cumcIsed, after the manner OF Moses. II wa
. determined 10y the cl..rch, TO depute Paul an,
: Brnabus t. Jerusalem, to consul, the Apostle
hllh lAib'iN' Si'iic a''u
/, much debate, decided to write letters 70 tn
= GentIles, merely requiring them 10 "Ab,tai
from meats offered to idols, and from blord, al,
from 'hiigs .trang'cd, and from iorncalion.
n They decided no! that they had never giver
> any such comm ndncnt as that they should b
! crcumcsrd. In the rather full acroun, Of th
! ,cha'e. ii. decision, aud the letter addre> ,cd t.
the Centiles at ii,ch, there is nothing said o
baptism in the room OF circumcision. tn,
question was not deci led on that ground. And
4, il baptism was instituted IN tho ROOM Of circum
cisi,n, the npo.tin, fact is left GU. Of all the
D accounts we have Of tho teachings Of Jews anr
, Grniles. In the Apostolic days, the Jew
would have placed circumcision and baptism
, both on the same footing. The Jews wer,
. taught by Christ and the Apostles the pron
nent fact, that baptism was essential to them, a,
well as I. the Gentilrs. The gentleman ho,
assumed that circumcision took them into III,
church; that the old and new churches nr.
a idcn,ical that baptism is in the room u! cir
, Gu ncisioh therefore. children, under tho new
i dispen,n,ion ought to be baptized, lIs can
. produce an example Of tho b'p,isn of infant,
$ in the B'ble for tho good reason that it is moi
4 in the Bible,