The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-20

volumes. Volume one has 4 thousand
eight hundred and eighty.four pages
double columpl fne print. It gives this
definition in German:
HBGpidso. Oft, Wiederholt eint4uchep,
untsrtauchen, nit els and pros.
Dab, benetIen, Anfeuchten, begiessen
Ubr, uebergiessen, ueberschutten,
etc. "BGptid.o. Often, repeatedly tO
sink In, to shbmerge, with sis and pros
/. Thence, 10 moiSten, to wet, 70
sprinkle. Generally, 10 besprin-
kle, to pour upon, TO ovetMhelm," etc.
Remember, this Ia the testimony Of The
greatest lexicon which the scholarship ol
the world has yet produced.
2. PaSsoW, another eminent lexico'
grapher, in defining baptidsO, gives "wet,
moisten, sprinkle, intoxicate," and then
adds: "Generally, TO sprinkle upon, to
pour upon, to oVerwhelm."
8. Schneider gives breehO. to sprinkle
or shed forth, As the general equivalent
Of boptidiO.
4. schwarzius gives "to sprinkle, 10
besprinkle, to pour upon.n
These are only few Of the learned
photographers who thus define the word
Baptist" is not posted. The soundes,
scholars and most thorough theologians
now living, believe and teach that sprin.
kle was the primary sense Of baptidzo,
For any 10 deny this, is to betray bis own
Ignorance. The facts and evidences
proving this are such a. carry conviction
alta glance. No honest man can deny
them, without divesting himself Of every
just claim to ordinary intelligence.
The so-calIed "intallible canon Of in.
terpretation" which "Bsptisi" presents,
was exploded years ago. Yet II Baptist
insists on his acanon," let him try to sub.
stilute immerse In the place Of baptiEe,
and the result will be fatal to his own
aide. His gun will do more execution
at Tho breach than at the muzzle. Let
the reader refer back 10 the 1srELLIeEs.
GER Of the 18th, and see shich one Of my
points was met, or even touched, by
6Baptist" and by Rev N. N. NJ.
Sound scholars sustain sprinklipg,
Competent commentators confirm It.
Trustworthy theologians ait. Lead
Ing linguists and learned photographers
freely admit that bop.id,o means TO
sprinkle. The prophet, iotetelling
baptism, says Of Christ, $50 shall
he sprinkle. many nations" The
Jews expected their Messiah TO
sprinkle them; and so, when John came
baptizing with water they began TO muse
in their hearts Of John, whether be were
the Christ or not, even going 80 far as to
ask, "Why bap,izest thou then, II thou
be not that Christ2' Saul standing up
was baptized" "a person can be sprin'
kled 10 standing posture. The Israel.
ties "were all baptized" on dry land; but
not one OF them was immersed When a
man Is once baptized he remains always
baptized, and 10 no longer subject to be
baptized; but 3 man does not continue
immersed after his withdrawal from the
waves. lie remains immersed while
merged within the fluid, and only while
merged within 1t. he ceases to be
immersed the moment be emerges.
Will any person claim that man
ceases to be baptized, as soon as he ceases
to be immersed? Unless this claim can
be m ade and sustained, "immersen ia no,
synonymous with "baptize." 1t Is not
only true thatihe Bible does not sanction
immersion, but it is also fact that the
person does not live, who can produce an
authenticated instance OF y baptism
among Christians by immersion during
either Of the first two centuries Of the
Christian era; and not church can be
named which rejected the baptism Of In
fants during either Of those centuries.
There Ia vast difference between bap-
tism and immersion. 1 deny that there
Ia any Divine authority for immersiou,
and my respondents have failed TO find
any. D. B. TuRsLY.