Smyrna times., 1869-03-31
The Question Of Baptism Continued.

tries to make me contradict myself but he
fails, utterly. My desircto know him dinrt0i-
nate in the hope expressed thought. per- /,
haps, that after he commenced the study of
the New Testament he would be Of great SER
vice to me,-that his wonderful aptitude in
seeing things not to he Seea, would be no less
manifest ill the discovery of riSiGie and plainly
taught facts, hence he would make pleasant
and profitable STUDENT but his second article
proved the contrary and di>sipated my hope.
lie manifested no disposition to follow thr
teachings of the New Testament. hence. |
said, had lost nothing by his aversion to know
me, since my desire to seek his acquaintance
ofigtnat| &c. But "Stars' tries to make
the impression that [ am still anxious to know
him for this purpose, and chucklcs (?J over my
self contradiction, when the next paragraph in
my last article, proves the contrary. So much,
then, for my self contradiction, according to
Stars"
Will now call the attention Of your readers
to his dcnitiN and roi.nictLS
| l.. ~ dcHy hm int0etSiou IS the '0ue liam.
tfSDt' p"L.cn Of by Paul. J."
One Lord, one fifth, one baptism" Eph.
- .. Head the context. Paul is unfolding
christian UNITY When the EpheSians were
converted they all embraced the same Lord
the same faith, and the same bantism IF
three or four modes of baptism had then pre
vailed fauI argument would not only have
iosC us force IN urging them to unity but if
would have made against the cause he was ad-
vocatlng. 1t would have taught diversity in
stead of unity -
But as there was but "one baptism" then.
ana that burial, he uses that one baptism rs
an argument Tor unity. One Lord, one faith.
one baptism is PLAN, simple and forcible. And
he 1t remembered that this "one b,ntism1W
lmmerSIon-is the only mode upon which all
9ehomlnat!0nS uHtte HO,r, as valid baptism
none require person to be splinkled or NOM
eu alter he has been iDtnlcrwtL They do MOI
all acknowedge the validity of auVofhfy mode
Paul llkens baptism to burial and Il r,,srr
rection. Romans, 6 So. Col. =: II. Ist Cor.
Is: %. ''' Ool'
Our immersion is a solemn burial showing
TO the world that we have died to sin. Our
rnteTS''" !ri Is Il resurrection, showing by beau
tllui and impressive emblem that we are to
walk IN ncwneSs Of life. "The water CLOSING
over the entire person breaches of the crave
! Milich yawns for every child of Adam, and
wiilch one day will cngulf all of us in its drear
abyss But that abyss will be the womb and
Seed-p ot new life Animation having
Deen Tor one instant suspended beneath th,. wa
ter L! type this Of the interruption of mans
energies 10y DEATH the body is lifted up again
m lhi3 IIT ar ny way OF expressing emblcmati-
cally !, the new birth Of Resurrection" This
| II: " " "'ii"S. IllS GaptlSm was an act
winch Symbozcd a burial and resurrrctinn
! Sprlnkllng and pouring could not b,v. dono
this. Immersion could. This was Paul's mean.
IIHlg "hGn he spakG to the Romans Cor. and
Eph. 1t was his lone baptism" " His Ian
guage III Col. is God 5 exposition of the mode
OF his own ordinance
Paul was Immersed. He says uc (inclulinp
hlm>eltl are buried with him in baptislm. lie
Goulu not nave SaId buried with him in spriak-
.5'"g' buried with him in I,ouring. This would
nave oeen absurd. The word baptixc admits
"' no Such meaning. Buried with him by I'm,
meF"0n Is appropriate and sensible. Panrs
one baptism '-was-one immersion IIo
Was T,G b"red In baptism-I suspect in river.
Efforts have recently been made to take from
Iche Ihe passages above quoted their testimony in
IaNor OF immersion. Stars in his renIv in,,,
seek refuge in these. NIy answer is ready. '''"'
- de"ytt0tonr S0riour iras iO,0,rrxeJ"
i1ow; then, was Jesus bapti,ed? Your read
ers' Mr. Editor, will please open a New Test
lnen[' 1G ana read the following passages Matt
ou VGHapier' I@-l :, also Mark LIST chapter. Gil.
y Vas Jesus ,SSprlnk led, poured, or immersed
Every one will see the absuriity of going intn
the llver for sprinkling or pouring. After his
odl'l>il, ne went up Straightway out of the
water. lie was baptized by John the Ban.
tlSt IN the river of Jordan. Nothing hut I'M |
merSIon made it Necessary for him to 90 into
the water Paul gives the meaning of the act
performed by John, submitted to by.JrsuS. and
approved by GOd. I" Buried with hin, in han
tlSnl' says Paul. He followed Christ 5 exam
pc STARS by substituting something else
by refusing to go down into the wafer. and
being baptised and then come IN strairbt- jIi1
way out OF the water" Stars, " by setting
aside this dtrtnc 0ricr and ccamDicis imnracLo
ing the wisdom OF Jesus, and rejecting his ex
ample. Let HIM come out and boldly depvthat
Jesus went into the Jordan or tell whv he
went there. Some of his Methodist friends
want to know what Jesus went into the river
OF Jordan for, and why Paul calls baptism a
DuTlai' II immersion was not intended.
Jesus ,s sald at his baptism, thus it bccometh
that 1t becomes them to follow Jesus in this
command and example. Paul says Christ was
buried IN baptism. He could not have been
buried by sprnkLng-he could, by i;n,,uers;o'
Jesus was immersed '' !
Denial No. 3. /Cieny that either lie or his b
4 PoSHeS erer commanded anyone to be f0,D,crs ii
Jesus was baptised and come up out of the {.
water. lie commands us to be baptised and +,
,ntorces the command by his examne "TH Ta II II
Stars willing to follow his example? OF
Paul gives an inspired meaning of the word S'
aptlse. lie was buried in baptism. and risen II, ~
gain; Philip and the Eunuch both went down ma
nto the water, and p. baptised him, and then OF
hey came up out of the water. See Acts &. m
60. Apostolic example has the force Of
uthorIty. 1t is the inspired exposition of the ''
Nv. The Baptist pastor in Dover does as thew -
Id. lie breaches repentance and faith. The
eope repent of sin and believe in Christ. Ha
len tells them of their next dutv~bantism m sic
hey apply for baptism. They seek the water fire
&c reads some. passages of Scripture Then
goes down into the water with his candi- !s1 ya'
ties and buries them in baptism, and raises KIN
em again. They come up out of the water, gre
I'd the candidates go on their way rejoicing of
undredS look on with streaming eyes. The Ell! .
N, ,,rooL = -: - O ""'cI' anu TIC pap to b
' n IonI Iuclhg truth 20 the Specta- any
o' WISH, mr. Editor, Stars could have con
EN- present few weeks ago To have witness Me-
the reioicings of those Methodist friends on