Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1885-05-28
ACTION OF BAPTISM.

heartily concur with "Disciple"
hat when the Lord gave the great
commission (Matt. %, 10, 2O) He
lsed the Greek word, baptidzo, and
hat in order to know certainly what
lie commanded we must learn what
He meant by "baptizing them into
he name," &c.
Now since disciple" has signally
'ailed to find any sentence older than
he commission in which baptidzo has
he meaning of ''dip or immerse,"
ind l have furnished him and the
readers of the LEDGER with four 9TH
II Greek words rendered into Latin
oy Merge and its compounds; and |
since disciple" has not even at
to find any tub, vat, pool or
hole in the ground built by divine Or
der as a part of the furniture of the
Tabernacle, where man might i'm
merse himself or any one else; and
since the Apostle Paul says in Heb.
3, 10, that there were ''divers bap-
tisms' in the Tabernacle service, it |
becomes my pleasant duty to point
out what the Apostle, inspired by the
spirit of Christ, meant by those "di-
vers baptlsms." And if we learn
what Paul meant in Heb. 8, 10, we
will have divine definition to aid us
in ascertaining what the Savior meant
by "baptizing them." AS it is abso-
lutely certain that no divinely ap-
pointed administrator ever put any
person into and under water, or any
other element, for the purpose of
washing, cleansing, purifying or bap-
tizing that person: and no vessel
suited for such dipping Or immersing
was ever built or made by divine Or
der, and since all the Lexicons, quoted
by ''Disciple,'' and all others that
pretend to give the New Testament
definition of baptizo, define it by the
words "wash, cleanse, purify" &C.,
we are driven to the conclusion that
Paul did not mean "dip or immerse"
when he used the word baptize.
Then what did he mean by ''divers
baptism?' We look into the record,
In the Old and New Testament, and
find 'sprinkling with blood;' with
blood and water with water and
heifer ashes; and with pure, unmix-
ed water; and all these divers sprink-
lings performed by divlnely appointed
administrators to represent some
moral or spiritual work wrought in
and for the recipient Of the rite, sac
rament or ceremony thus administered
Baptism with water represents
what the spirit does for US; not what
we do for ourselves. The Apostle
in Heb. 9:13 tells that these "divers
baptisms'' "sanctifeth to the purify
ing of the flesh and thus they repre-
sented the baptism administered by
the great baptizer, when he "by Cor
with) one spirit baptizes his disciples
into one body, (1st Cor. 12:13)
whether they be Jew or Gentle,
bond or free, and makes them all to
drink Cor partake) of one spirit. -
John the baptizer spake of this bap-
tism when he said, (Math. 3:11) Il
indeed baptize you with water unto
repentance-he shall baptize you with
the holy spirit and with fire." Jesus
is the great baptizer with the spirit
Hence we read in Titus 3:5 that 'sHe
saves US by the washing of regenera.
ton and the renewing of the holy
spirit, which he pours on us abund
antly, etc." This washing which
He pours ON u.s. is identically thu
same with the Zone baptism by (ol
with) the one spirit by which we art
all baptized into the one body O.
Christ. 1st Cor. 12:13. Nothing
but sffusion will correctly represen
the baptism which Christ PERSONAL,
administers. s'Dipping or immers
ing" does not, and cannot. symbolic
the baptism administered by the Lore
Jesus and cannot therefore be scrip
tural baptism.
This Interpretation is in harmon.
with the fact that in all classic an,
Jewish baptisms older than the grea
commission the person or thing bap
tized was not moved and put into th
element, but the element was move
and put upon or brought in contae
with the recipient of the baptism
sDip" moves its object-all scriptur
baptisms move the element; there
fore ''dip' is not scriptural "actio
of baptism"
Let no .sdipper" say that Disciple
failure is Disciples fault. He hs
made as good q defence of dippin
as can be made by any man in til
state. He has shown unusual ski
and tact in putting together I'll
broken and decayed fragments an
assumptions and blunders that are Il
basis and support of the dipping-sul
mersion theory. The failure is
his doctrine, not in the advocate.
honor his pluck but can not admit
his judgment.
There were ''divers baptisms''
tabernacle service. Heb. 9:10. The
were no clipping or immersing"
vessels for dipping or immersinI
connected with the tabernacle sc
vice. Therefore Paurs ''divers ba
tisms" were absolutely not "dippin
Z or immersings," but were most &C
tainly the divinely appointed sprin
lings, by divinely appointed admin
traitors with divinely appointed el
ments. And that sssettles it." n
Editor. T. GALLAHER.
P. S. 1 received the proof
Disciples" article in the LEDG
of May 21st while on my way to t
General Assembly. But his questio
will be attended to when l retu
tabout June LIST. I. 6.
May Is, 1885.
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