The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-01
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Wfiliamspoft writes There encouraging
words to us: "Your most valuable papel
is always welcometre in this the It'll
district. 1 speak broadly, because 1t Il
eagerly sought after, and is called one o
the best country newspapers in the
State"
CorToN and corn crops are growing il
splendid style in the Williamsport coun
try. A farmer tells us that he has moi
seen such brilliant prospect for years
The farmers, however, have to work Xix,
putting out fire, in order to keep dowI
the weeds which the ex cessive rains thai
have fallen during the past eight or ter
days have set in rapid motion upward
WE are glad to learn that the Leipel
Creek Captain who lost fine mich COW
about three months ago, has recovered
her, and although she had been gone
long time, the "milking apparatus,
which caused her to run away, was Still
on her, performing its accustomed func
tions. ....,.,.
Corn is fairly jumping up out of the
ground. The big rains and the hot sur
are moving it. lft4.f--.
THE storm which passed over Cros.
Bridges on last Monday evening alst
visited Carter's Creek in it's travels, anG
did much damage. Mr. John A. Miller'i
| wheat was blown down, so that it cannot
be reaped. '.t 80 'a'i t'tstY.
Mr.. S. j. Roberts, of the Robert:
Bend, has a field of splendid looking
corn which was silking and tasseling or
last Tuesday. He has also some fine oats
called the "surprise oats, which are fal
superior to the ordinary oats. These
oats were brought on by that onterpris-
| ing house, T. w. Keesee d Co. TIT
Roberts Brothers own about one thou
sand acres of magnificent land, and they
do not raise stalk of cotton on it, bu
they have about a thousand hogs in theil
| rye field. Mr.. J. ID. Wright, of thi.
| city, took No. 4 Champion Reaper anC
Mower to the Roberts Bend on last Fri
day, and cut wheat and moved grass fo'
several days. Mr.. S. J. Roberts was 81
well pleased with the machine that III
bought it. rf,.r g..
WE learn that there will be trial o
Mowers in Col. Fount Wade's clover
fields to-day. The Wood, the Excelsior
the Clipper, and the Hubbard machines
will try their skill and efficiency.
THE Methodist people had Quarterly
Meeting at Mt. Pleasant on last Sabbath
DIR. A. L. p Green, P. E., who look.
like grand June morning, and DIR. A
G. Haygood, the great Sunday SchoO
man of Georgia, were present. Tit
church would not hold all the peopl,
and two got happy, under the preaching
of DIR. Green, who always breaches lore
and whose religion is love. For low
is heaven, and heaven is love-"
THE young men around Mr.. William
Brazier's, 1.-THE big fisher have organized
Debating Club at the old Akin Schoo
| House. VIM. Burr Sowell is President
They had II debIte last Saturday nigh
on the subject, (Which is the most ben
eficial to man, Education or Industry
On the side of Education, J. l.. Dooley
and J. c. McCullom; i'm behalf OF Indus
try, Willis BraZier and John Smith, Sol
of the widow Smith. 1t was difficult t.
decide, but the latter gained it, and they
crowed over it nightly. The question
tor discussion tomorrow Saturday
night is, (which has the most infiuenc,
on man, Religion or Wealth." Affirm
alive, j. l.. Dooley, Geo. Cannon, ant
| lack Akin; Negative, John Smith, Will
lis Brazier, and Jim McCullom.
MAURY COUNTY, June, 1870.
met my neighbors and friends from adjacen
yicinities at the Christian Church on Kno
Greek, the eve of the 18th for the purpose q
listening to discussion styled: THAT efusiOI
of water on penitent believer is Christian bap
tism." G. W. Kinzer of Sawdust Valley af
frmed and L. P. Fraser Of Knob Greek denie'
the proposition. Mr.. Vestal was solicited o
Moderator and DIR. Cunningham assistant Mod
orator. Vestal in few well directed remark
euiogized the behavior ofthis neighborhood, an,
thought it solely incompatible with the histOr,
| of this people to even name order, as they wer
under all circumstances so very orderly.
There were about 80 persons in attendance
consisting of old men, women and children
who sat amazed and seemingly highly enter
tanned for the period of315 hours which was oc
| cuped by the debaters-1% hours allotted +
each in their speech and quarter of an hour t
each for rejoinder. During the entire discus
sion pin might have been heard fall on tn
floor, save an occasional whine of a baby an
Singer of the congregation. Annexed heret
is an abridged synopsis of the debate:
Kinzer mounted the rostrum, looking as boil
and defiant as lion, sanguine of leading cap
| tive his boyish opponent to the Valley of dust
where his peers would bedeck his head witt
laures. He calculated, "that little word bap
tism has dcranged the christian world for severa
| centuries" 81 Kinzer) am here for the pur
pose of proving to you without a book in m,
hand-were it not for my former scrutinizin.
| examination in relation to baptism, would b,
unprepared in toto for the task, but sirs, l fee
adequate to the task"
''The word baptize means to sprinkle and Il
! pour as well as to immerse. Now to the proofs
Paul tells US, 4 would not that you be ignoran
| brethren, that how all our fathers were unde
the cloud and all passed through the sea- Da
| vid tells us, the clouds pnur out water Nov
Paul and Moses testified that the 1sraelite
were baptised, and David testified that tn
clouds poured water on them, hence they were
baptized by pouring, as by the mouth of two o
three witnesses everything shall be established.
| If YOU subscribe to immersion only, you vii
have to believe the following: That John tb'
Baptist in Isl days, immersed all the regiol
around Jerusalem and Judea-you will have t,
believe the ii Apostles on the day of Pentecos
immersed 5000 persons; can you subscribe Il
| to these? Baptism by immersion is of moderl
date Turtullian of the third century practices
trine immersion. In tine sixteenth century tn
German Dutch borrowed one dip from Turtul
Ian, hence immersion has been practiced in tn
| church ever since. ..-. ...--
I'VE have God-lke Institution, we'll not b
limited to any one mode-weTl let the candi
date select his mode. All! friends, those tina
practice immersion have unchristIanized tn
religious world. John the Baptist said i bap
tie WITH WATER the word WITH in scriptur
relative to baptism, denotes the mode, an
the word IN denotes the place. 'Baptize wit
the Holy Ghost--hence Joel says 4 will pou
out my spirit on all flesh therefore We con
clude that efusion were the ancient modes Q
performing BAPTISM"
Fraser mounted the stand, saying: 9TH
champion of Sawdust Valley has crossed tn
Rubicon and unfurled, as he thinks, his .invinci
BILE banner in defiant manner on the mort
side of old Duck, not only for the purpos eof con
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chimes, but to crush into eternal oblivion an
degradation all those who practice immersio
only. Now to the question: The word baptiz
is transferred, not translated in King jaime:
version. 1t originally meant to dip, .immerst
&c. Sprinkling and pouring are entirely out {
the question. To the proof we must go; her
are twelve photographers, names as follow!
Scapula, Eenrcus Stephennus. Thcsauru.
Schleusner, Pasor, Parkhurst; Donnegan, ID
chneider, and Bass, (all of the Pedo-Bapti:
rank) who unanimously agree that the wOr
baptize means to dip, plunge, immerse, DC
secondly means to dye and to stain-to sPril
kle and to pour are out of the question.
; Now, what do such distinguished Ped6
Baptists as Luther, Calvin, George Campbell
Anthem and Stuart say baptize means? Not
dissenting voice in giving it dip, plunge, i'm
merse, and they never gave it even as cons'
sequental meaning sprinkle, pour, &c. There
fore it should always be translated immerse {
its equivalent. Again, if you substitute Il
true meaning of word twill make as GOO
sense as the word itself, try it-"They were a
poured of him." "They were all sprinkled I
him;""They were all immersed of him." IT
latter clause is the only one that has any sens
in it whatever. You will have to supply q
ellipsis in the first two clauses to make sens
which will be adding to the word OF God.
SLOW were the Israelites baptized? BY in
m,rsion. The seq vas wall on either side, an