Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-22
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Continued from last Week.)
In the 3rd chapter of Mathew, 9th
verse, it is said, "Then went out to him
Jerusalam and all Judea, and all the
region round about Jordan, and were
baptised Of him in Jordan" Greek
volatility prevents his repeating the
terminus Of the 9th verse; confessing
their sins. He should have also read
the 7th and 9th verses :"But when he
saw many of the Pharisees and Sad
ducees come to his baptism, he said
unto i,oh generations ofvipep,who
hath warned you to flee from the wrath
to Gomez Bring forth fruits, meat for
repertancs." Every body until until Nj H H.
has always understood this, as mean
ing simply thata great many from
Jerusalem and from Judea and from
round about Jordan went out to Johns
baptism, but Mr.. II. has found out bet
ter. and not a part, but the the entire
population Of Jerusalem and those re.
gions, men, women and children, more
than six millions seven thousand Gam
l correctly Mr. H. says were sprinkled
by John. He says these millions Of
course were not immersed, aince it
would take John three years according
to his calculation, to immerse one half,
but then he shows how John would
sprinkle them very easily. Well can
folly go any further than thisf fhat
John sprinkled the whole of Palestine,
Jews. Samaritans,and Romans. Surely
no one but AR. Hallman would father
such an "idea." We think ifit is new
that it is ridiculous mus" We
wish, since Mr.. H. is disposed TO un-
derstand something's literally, he would
not strain SO hard to get round the
plain literal meaning of baptism.
Third, Mr.. HIS. article shows his
bitter scctarian feeling. What else but
the bitterest sectarianism could have
led him to make the wholesale charge
upon the baptist ministry of plagua-
rism. Baptists believe they have the
truth and feel that it is their duty to
bring all men to the knowledge of the
truth, clearly and in full, before those
who can understand it, and leave its nc
ceptance, or rejection with them. They
never practice their preselytism upon
"the weaker Sort" poor, helpless in.
fants.
BY the way, are those baptists, if
there are s;ioil, 7wih1o join the Luiherans
"of the weaker sort?' or does the rule
work only one way2 We think that
those Lutherans, that the proselyting
baptists about Santee succeeded in lead
ing away" are rather of the stronger
sort, or why those whale efforts to keep
them from going to the baptists. 1t is
right here the shoe pinches; of course
they are of the weaker sort" now, be
cause they are baptists.
In charging her members with try
ing for several years to proselyte his
Trinity church ard lis pastor, Mr.. H.
has certainly made terrible blunder.
We suppose that proselytism, in the
sense in which he uses it, means such a
desire and zeal to get members, and win
converts from other denominations,
that unfair, secret and unchristian
measures are used, to compass the OBJ
ject. Well can Baptists practice such
a proselytism as thisf If they do, we
unhesitatingly say that those of them
who do use such means, deserve con-
tempt. Baptists have but 'one baptism,
Immersion-apd all who come to them
have to come that despised, unpopular
and according to some, indecent way.
We'll, now, Mr.. H. didn't you offer to
immerse one of those very persons you
call "the weaker Sort" if he would re-.
main n Lutheran? That is, to get n
member, you will do that very thing,
immerse him-which you are preach
ing against, writing against and pray
ing against and which you believe or
profess to believe, to be unscriptural
and wrong. A. B. IaNoRAMus.