The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-10-15
Yours in hope
A. T. iIoBBs

i The above ~ the note Cer5dtint, In winch
YOU say l charged you with falseipod,
and by implication, with lying
Nv dear sir, those reasons are too thin
n gauze to hide behind. Very politician
like indeed. to turn a controversy upon
a question involving eternal interests,
into n merely personal wrangle When
YOU felt your inability i'll the face Of
those articles, to meet your own issues
in a manly way, You seek to maxi tie
impression that | am some great c2yOr-
ting, staggering, clustering bully, 80
swollen with anger, THAT could not
write yoI challenge for a discussion,
without calling YOU a liar" And that
YOU are n meek, lamb like, retiring saint
of injured innocence and wounded honor
/ Hoping thus to draw after you the SYM
pathies of the multitude In the nane
of orr holy religion, protest a13inst
such chicanery. Either come out openly,
aud bravely meet our errors, if aus -
hold. or desist hereafter from attribating
to us views which, Won ought TO know, We
do not avow nor believe.
You decline to reply to my published ar
ticles, because you are not ,i4spU-s.s -
give me that notorietv IN this Rich
mond community you /, have so long
desired" " 7 ..s-sz,s
Nv dear sir, did you ever think that,
possibly, the boot might be on the other
foot: If | remember, rightly M adj
vent into that community preceded
yours. and my stay was quite as pro'ract-
ed. Probably my relations to that com
munItv gave me fully as much ''notor,ety'
as could desire, only as ] would aish
to gain it everywhere, by the triumph Of
truth Is it notoriety - me That vsp "
to withhold? Is it not rather notoriety
to what you are pleased 70 cali ~
phellism, that you SO much dread 2
Else why that studied effort to keep yoar
people from our hearing. And why
those efforts publicly and privately 70
stuff the public mind with preju.l.ee
against US.
But, | am sick Of such stuff i we5'l
rather call Your mind and that OF TIC
reader, to the fact that the Great %
and our Lord Jesus Christ, have req lllsI
of US the discharge Of certain dIes
One of these is to be baptised IT is
only one, but not therefore, iudiff rcat.
Yon teach that this command can be
obeyed in at least three modes. We
teach. that nothing but immersion Of a
proper subject in water is that enjoined
in the great commission, TO be practiced
by the Apostles.
Your attention is again called 70 the
two propositions" contained in the
Record of Aug 10Th inst The types
make me say what l did not intend
First There is not an accredited
Greek Lexicon on earth, that gives as the
literal meaning Of 5opttdzo, to immerse,
or an equivalent term.
.Seoond, There is not an accredited
Greek Lexicon on earth that does not
give as the literal meaning OF Japs.dzo, to
immerse, or an equivalent term
The 81 900 will be forthcoming when
ever you find an exception to either OF
these propositions. If you cannot ind
an exec ton, how dare YOU practice that
any longer in the name of the Lord, for
which there is not a vestage Of authority.
] do hope sir, for the sake Of truth, and
for the the benefit Of honest enqdL {. >,
you will yet nerve yourself TO the task
before you.
Yours in hope A ! HoBBs