Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-03-19
ACTION OF BAPrIsH.

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10 Importance only connected with
he Gospel in mans salvation and
With proper subject. To man
Without faith it Is a matter of no
To him there is not a
more empty and unmeaning thing in
she world than baptism, and it mat
Iers not to him what the action is
but to the man who believes with all
his heart that Jesus is the Christ, the |
son Of the living God, that he is di-
vine, that all the fullness of the Deity |
dwells substantially in Him, that all
in heaven and on earth is
given to him and that he gave the1
last commission, "Go We therefore
and teach all nations, baptizing them
into the name of the Father, and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit" II
say to such an one, it is important to
know what he meant when he said
"baptizing them" What he here
commanded the Apostles to do could
not have been done without knowing
what he meant by these words. A
command IN the very nature of the
case requires something to be done.
This the Lord did when he comman-
ded persons to be baptized. We
never read of a mode of baptism in
the Bible; what can he the reason of
this? The reason is the word baplize
tells priclsely what is to be done as
distinctly as the word immerse. We
never speak of MOLE or the mode
of immersing. Immersing is simply
one specific act; the same is true OF
sprinkling or pouring. We never
speak of a mode Of sprinklng Or
pouring. The reason is, that sprink-
ling or pouring is a specific act and
there is hut one way to do it. Sprink
ling is distinct thing and any one
knows when it is done. You never
sprinkle by pouring or immersing
You never pour by sprinkling or I'M
mersing, so you never immerse b,
sprlnkling or pouring. Now w
ersnt that the word sprinkle is in thu
Bible but not for baptism.
1t is not IN the word the Savio
employed when he gave the grea
commission. The word Tdntizo mean
to sprinkle, but he did not use tina
word, but did use the word baptiz
which means to immerse, so all schol
, ars and photographers declare (wh
are of any note.)
l will now make this assertion
:, That sprinkling of pouring mel
y water on any person or thing for an
moral or religious purpose was nevs
. done by Gods authority since Il
:, world began" Blood was sprinkle
and waite, mingled with blood or wi
the ashes of red heifer, called som
times clean or "pure WATER" Il
G. water of publication, the swat
q of separation" the "water of clean
20 ing" The water mingled with ash
d was commanded to be sprinkled as
n water of separation or of cleansll
a. persons polluted by any conta
Il with things forbidden or declar'
A. unclean. The only passages in t
~ Old Testament in which this subje
TX is mentioned, that l now remembe
,a are Numbers, 9Th chap. and 9TH vers
a also 10Th chap. 18th, 18th, 18th a
v. 2lst verses. These passages are t
IS only places in the law Of Moses tt
in speaks of sprinkIing water. Allusi
TO- TO this clean or cleansing water
is: found once in the Prophets. ''Th
rs. will sprinkle clean water upon you
ev Ezekiel, 36th chap, 25th verse. II
en- true that in Isaiah 53rd chap,
rd have these words: $50 shall
III sprinkle many nations" But
passage IS of doubtful interpretati
Some render it "Astonish many
De- tions." But if we hold to the rend
~, ~ ing we have in the common version
we would be question what he was
i've >prinkle with, water or blood? v
md can tell? In the New Testament
w, .he find the term sprinkle only Sc
md times. Heb. 9th chap, 18th and 2
,os- Moses sprinkled both the book
owe all the people with blood" Heb.
one chap, 22ud verse, Having
"a ;5 hearts sprinkled from an evil {
orr science and our bodies washed
cur pure water" In Heb. 9lh chap.
pest verse, We have an allusion to the
we heifer, THE ashes of an h'
Az sprinkling the unclean." Heb.
,ER chap, 2Sth verse, also affords an
,oks er instance, "Moses kept the spl
viii ling of blood" and Heb. 18th cI
ltes' 24.h verse, alludes to the ''bloo
,n,s sprinkling," while Peter in his
). Epistle, l and 2, ailudes to
|. Y. sprinkling of Christ's blood. So
sprinkIing of water receives no c
of tenance whatever from the New
cleo lament. We have divers batl
ure! in water alone though no sprin
is OF of water alone. In the Law in |
o,r;a % icus, chap. 10Th, verses 3. s, 10
aase l3, l6, Is, 81, %, 27. Here ar
nary divers bathings in one chapter.
pun, whole person is said to be baths
anu order to cleansing. Also Lev,
10 ., chapter, 26th and 2sth verses.
1t are two other bathings in ord
cleansing in Lev, l7th chap,
and 10th verses. Another lbs