Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-01-10

store 10 the house occupied by the Grane,
store Mr. Henry L Phillips is moving
10 Capt. stepbenson's property. The Cap
tain and wife have taken rooms at the
Hardin House. Mr.. William Duncan
proposes moving to the house vacated by
Phillips. A gentleman named Turner,
from Tatesville, has moved into the house
lately occupied by Mr.. h. X. wearen, sc.
The balmy autumnal weather that we
had enjoyed 40 much, came to a sudden
termination with the advent Of the New
Year, and since then winter has get in in
earliest. But the goose bone, elevated
hornets nests, thin corn husks, and We pre-
sumo the ground hog, when his day
comes, together with Tice and vennor, all
predict a mild winter. Hence we look Tor
the wave to pass over soon.
My attention has been called to an ar.
ticle in the Somerset Reporter, Of the 18th
ult., in which a writer from this place
stated that the Complexities would not
get any other preacher to help Ed. sewell
in his meeting lest they could not follow
Barnes" And further, that Ed. Sewell
stated that he never could endorse the
teachings Of his brethren, on the design Of
baptism. II seems that some scribes,
among whom I will class the writer, who
ever he may bel, are so full of prejudice
and ignorance that they cannot fairly rep
resent facts, or what is wore, are impellsd
by sinister motives Of policy to make
thrusts at those they regard as denOmina-
tional rivals in order, II possible, to pref
udice their own brethren against them. In
the first place there was no proposition by
anv member Of the Church Of Christ at
this place, to employ any one to aid Ed;
Sewell in his attempt TO utilize the labors
Of Mr.. Barnes, here, in the interest Of the
church. In the second place, as to Elder
Seweli saying that he never endorsed the
teaching Of his brethren on the design of
baptism. This declaration Ed. Sewell
did not make. On the contrary, he dis.
tinctly stated shat until within the last
Eve years, he had fully agreed with his
brethren on the design Of baptism. He
further stated, and made the unprejudiced
and intelligent in the audience, see the
truth Of il, "that 30 far as he had changed
his mind on the design Of baptism, he had
only gotten further away from the position
Of the denominations around him" The
chief point on which his mind had changed
was on the meaning Of remission Of sins. He
no longer believes that the remission Of
sins which the Savior came 10 procure for
us is merely legal or governmental act
in removing an external penalty, but a
Spiritual work within US, removing or
subduing evil passions and habits, both in
the inner and the outer man. The blood
cleanses the inner man and the word
cleanses the outer man. Baptism, "h1a .
water" represents this outer cleansing by |
the word, see Eph. v: 20. So Ed. Sewell
still makes baptism, in order to remission
Of sins, not as an arbitrary condition Of
government al or judicial release from an
extel nal penalty, but only representative
of the cleaning power Of the word in
cleansing the outer life-See Psalm 1l9,
verse 9th. But inasmuch as baptism in
Produces into that necnes Of outer life in
which alone the inner cleansing by the
blood can nroOress therefore In This sens.
it l. for remission of sins. John says: IF
we walk in the light, &c, the blood Of Je-
sus Christ His Son, cleanses us from all
sim" From this passage Elder Sewell
draws the inference that the cleansing Of
the inner man by the blood can progress
only while we are walking in the light, e.
living az Christians are commanded in the
Word, to live.