Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-06-18
ACTION OF BAPTISM.

Lexicons define it, but We see he
thought best not to. He knows the
word means sprinkle; he also knows
the word was in current use when the
Savior gave the great commission,
that it meant sprinkle then, and that
if the Savior had meant sprinkle he
would have employed a word with
that meaning. Rantizo is used sew
eral.times in the New Testament and
is translated sprinkle every time.
Gallaher says l give up the argu-
ment when say the Savior was over
whelmed in sufferings. Did not the
Savior undergo those sufferings he
calls a baptism? Was he not over
whelmed in sufferings? He (Jesus)
was overwhelmed. not the sufferings.
So much for that Let me say to
you, Mr.. Gallaher, and to the readers
of these articles, 1 am not trying to
take refuge behind anything but the
truth. I want the truth and nothing
but the truth will satisfy me. I would
rather be right and to know that I am
right than to be crowned with the
brightest honors of earth; and
would rather not be accused of trying
to confuse my readers or to keep
them ignorant of what our Savior
meant when he said s'Teach and bap-
tie the nations"
I now desire to notice what the
Doctor has to say about the Lexi-
cons, and his grounds for saying "the
Lexicons are against dip Or immerse. -
1st. Schrevelius-Baptizo to fmerse,
to wash, to cleanse, Ono sprinkle,
please notiue.) 2nd. Donegan-
Baptizo, to immerse, repeatedly into
q liquid, to submerge, to soak thor
oughly, to saturate. 3rd. Parkhurst-
Baptizo, Lexicon for the New Testa.
ment, deposes that Baptizo first and
primarily means to dip, immcrse OF
plunge in water. 4th. Pickering
Baptizo, to dip, immerse, submerge,
plunge, overwhelm, to steep, to soak,
to wash, to cleanse by washing, 5th
Liddill and Scott-Baptizo, to dir
repeatedly, dip under, to wet, tt
steep, to pour upon. Now, Doctor
let me say just here that the little
word pour you have found was giver
in one of its early editions as one o.
the definitions of Baptizo. But thu
cry against it, from all directions
was so great that they were COMPEL
ed to cast it out; it would have ruin
ed their Lexicon, great and good al
it is. 9Th. Schleusner, Baptizo, t.
immerse, to dip, to plunge in water
Baptisma, properly immersion, dip
ping into water. But he adds eli
this sense it does not occur in th
New Testament" but says baptiz'
means in the New Testament to wash
to cleanse, to purify with water. I
so occurs in Mark Z, 4.
Now if any man can see how tn
Lexieons referred to support the the
ory for which my friend Gallahe
contends, he is capable of seein,
things that 1 cannot. Why does b
contend for sprinkling? Is it posi-
BILE he is so very blind that he canno
see that the Lexicons he has quote
are all against him? Do they not Al
give first immerse, dip, plunge, sub
merge, as the meaning of baptizo
Read his article. No lodging now
the Doctor is quoting. I have quote
in part from the Doctors article c
June 18th. Therefore he cannot sa
that 1 have not quoted the Lexicon
fairly. Now what have we found i
the Lexicons cited that favors sprinl
ling for baptism or that looks in tha
direction? and let me say just her
that those who sprinkle Or pour fc
baptism, not only have not the pr
I mary meaning of the word in the
| favor, but that they have no meanin
l at all of the word baptizo in the
favor; that which they practice is M
named as definition at all but is le
entirely out and has nothing to d
with it. DR.. Gallaher says in one {
his articles that ''sprinkling is tt
Divinely appointed way Of baptizing,
or words to that effect.
Now ask on what authority do'
he make that statement? Where d
Jesus Christ our Lord ever commar
the Apostles to sprinkle water on Il
} people? Where and when did Il
Apostles practice anything OF Il
kind? Just nowhere, and that Sc
ties it. The Lexicons are positive
against sprinkling and pouring 4
baptism. We find as a secondal
meaning Of the word wash, dy
stain, moisten, cleanse, &C., &C., b
where to sprinkle? But low can
those secondary meaningsf Simp
in this way: Things are lnoisten'
by dipping or baptizing them. 1
: the object in some instances of ba
thing was to moisten they took d
roeult fnr fha v,,oapistr rf the W0r