The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-03-07

dared bin to show such Scripture
and after q continuation of the de.
bate he became 80 bold as to de.
clare that no such Scripture as Ap.
plegate referred to could be found,
and thundered anathemas against
such as asserted It. His powerful
laundering seemed to sweep away
all opposition. He closed with an
assurance that if any such indorse.
rnent Of ''aprinkling" could be
found in the Old Scripture he would
own himself wrong and never
preach again. The effect Of his
adjuration was fearful. Baptists
were rejoicing, Me.hodists were de-
| jected, and q great sensation per-
vaded the whole audience.
Even the stripling's friends feared
he was annihilated, but he rose
with declaration that he could sup.
| port his words, and. naming chap.
ter and verse, he asked the chair
man to read. The Judge opened
the Bible At the place indicated,
and read the passage which Apple
gate claimed was the forerunner OF
baptism, where the people before
the altar were symbolically purified
and legeperated in spirit BY sprink-
ling with hyssop. lie followed this
up powerfully ID his turn, showing
how sprinkling was the symbol Of
purification In the ancient customs,
and that baptism in the same form
was the natural sequence under the
teachings Of Christ.
/ fear he mystifed his audience
some when lie described baptism Al
'seither abstract or concrete" and,
by cunning illustration, claimed The
Israelites. who crossed the Red sea
dry shed, moistened only BY the
showers Of Heaven, as the illnstra.
ton Of the concrete article, while
he held up as tile abstract example
the case Of the Egyptians who fol-
lowed them and were plunged an.
der with d vengeance and sent 10
perdition.
The tide Of feeling began to.
turn % the Yolng orator went on
with his quaint theology and origi.
nal theory, and II was at full food
when be recited the promise Of
Brother Hill never to preach again
If his word was disproved. Bother
Hill perceptibly shuddered as he
warned him that his word was dis
proved, and he must expect 70
brave the wrath Of God if he ever
preached again. The warning
sounded almost like an imprecation,
and he sat down ii q silence that
was finally broken BY the unani.
nous verdict Of the jury that the
doctrine Of baptism BY sprinkling
had been sustained.
The tournament was over, Broth
er Hill was disarmed and unhorsed
by such b STRIPPING a. slew Goliah.
He came around to preach after
ward, but his audience consisted Of
only five, and then none came after
ward TO hear him, and his glory
was departed, his prestige gone.
Our OGegonians don't appreciate
defeat any more chan do the rest of
the world, and they wrote "Icha-
bod" over their soll-portrait Of
Brother Hill. ". 4
Turning from theological argu-
rnelit. to practical illustration, the
preacher builta saw-mill on one Of
The streams near by, and The time
came when the work was done and
saving was to commence. It had
Fained heavily in the mountains,
and The stream was high, but when
they went u start work It was AL
most dry, standing IN pools. they
wondered and waited FOR three days,
and the third night they heard .
houlnings crashing sound that was
fearfully suggestive OF disaster. The
daw1of day showed that the floods
l,ad swept down from the moull-
tains, torn tile mill from its founda-
lions, aOd ground tito pieces among
the rocks below. A landslide
from some ridge above had choked
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