Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-20

Nh sPUEGEON asserts that in England
open communion Baptist churches greatly
prosper. The SAME thing Is affirmed Of some
HCI The churches An This country. The church
paper 81 san FranciscO says that the days Of
cd LaHdmGrEtsm, which does not r~ecOgHizea
PedObaptizt a. a Christian at the liable or In
Ite pulpit, are numbered
We clip the above editorial from the
ATPEAL, n political and secular paper pub
iIsbed IN this city. We know that one OF
It's editors is a Catholic, another an Epis-
cOpalian, who, since their connection with
u, ave run the paper in the interest Of
those two sects; We mean its general in
nuence has been decidedly anti Protestant
and strongly Catholic. IL has been regar-
ded by Protestant ministers ~ the organ
Of The Catholic church; PrOtestants have
> received little favor al its hands, Baptists
none. We indulged the hone Ina under
the direction OF Col Tyler, It's new editor
fn-chfeL, its religious tendencies would be
less obnoxious 10 the Protestant senti-
ment Of it, patrons, aud that it would be
confined within the recognized limits Of a
professed secular paper. We cannot think
the editOr-in-chief, whom we regard as a
high-UOned gentleman, capable Of writing
such q SANDER upon the largest religious
denomination within the bounds Of his
circulation, and among whom are multi
Tudes OF his patrons; but if be cannot
shield his Baptist patrons from the malice
Of his Catholic associates, he certainly
cannot expect his paper TO retain the pat
ronage OF n people whose religion il rs
sails.
What has the APPEAL to do with the
principles or internal regulations Of any
religious denomination, provided they in
fringe not upon the social, civil or politi-
cal rights Of mAnkind2 How is il that
Baptists are 50 especially obnoxious 20
the APPEAL7 Who revealed TO 10 that
the views Of Baptists touching the relR-
tions Of baptized or unbsptized persons 70
The Lords Supper or 70 the pulpit were
any part of its business or cOncernmentZ
What means this mendaaiOus assailment
Of Baptists7 What Is the object sought
20 be attafned-what passion, prejudice OF
priest TO be gTatihed by this reiteration OF
a thousand times refated falsehoOd, ut
tered by The religions opponents and enc
mics OF Bsptists7
Ii is known by ali intelligent persons
that Al regular Baptist churches, from
the DAYS Of job the Baptist until now"
have believed, in common with all Pro
testants and GStholics OF later days, that
Christian baptism scripturally precedes
participation Of the lords supper. They
also have believed and DO nov believe
that immersion is the act which Christ
commanded cheH he selected As only Word
IN the Greek language that means to
dip, 70 iTHmerSs-dnd asUer aaufhfA0 ]
else. They also believe that no one but 4
III NEAN4NA-@ - - gAAAENEA IVA ALnNLAN-IH J.
already saUed Person-hAs the right to be
baptized; J. e. they baptize those they he
Iieve are suUed, and FOR a declaration al
rms T1ef, and not IN order % SAGE them. a.
Follows from these simple premises thar
they must, 30 long as they are Baptlsts,
hold that no Christian, however holy. has 4
anv right TO membership or communion. 4
or ONCE, as preacher, IN the church oil
Christ. until he has submitted to baptism
a. Christ enfoin0d il. This is the old
Iandh,arkism at which the editorial Of the
APPEAp is aimed, and "tbe days" %
which, Il seeks to impress upon It's read
ers are slrsady numbered which can
NOT be the case while the Baptist denomi-
nation exists. Those open communion
immersionists, though called Baptists-as
Campbe!Iite immersioutsts sometimes
ars-renouucing as they do the funda-
mental principles Of Baptist politg, ere
not ia fact BdPtsts, nor are Oeyf N yeUop-
ship Ui1 BaPtists, any more than the
Catholic editor of the APPEAL is. There
fore il no more affects US as a people
whether they flourish or decay, than
xyhether the faVorite church " ofthe APP
PEAL prOspers or declines.
From the brief and plain statement of
Baptist principles above, the reader eau
So the arOss glSnder and misrepresenta-
1fon win which the APPEAL points irs
BaPtists do not say that I
peraou Il not a Glrf6iinH whom they de-
10 invite to the LOnd'a table; hut
DO Say 1hat in their esteem he Is not
s~cTfpturalfy guqlfded TO partake Of il, be-
sanse unbaptizedS sad we believe with
Fpiscopalians ard Catholics, that no man
Il 0ualt6ed 70 pfesah until be Is baptized.
1id Paptisfs believe as 30 the two
who reflect the religious Light of
10 APPEAL that 40 one, fnfdat or Gdsr, !
an be saved without baptism, then might l
.bev instly be charged with a denial Of
~ .isfian character 70 those TO whom .
-, ,efuse the Lords supper. IL is pass Z
t-e,,ge 10 US how these young saints 4.
raisef Sorshippers Of Catholic saints '
RIM he r-tiuops department. Of the