Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1885-04-23

those pools we feau aoout anu tneh
call it dry. There was water no doubt
for Luke says "as many as gladly
received his word was baptized (im-
and the same day there was
added unto them about 5000 souls"
Mark ye, they gladly received the
word. But how about the jailor?
was he baptized in the jailor's house?
1 guess not; the preaching took
place in the house he preached the
word of the Lord to the jailor and to
all that were in his house. Now it
will be admitted, 1 suppose, that the
preaching was done in the jailor's
house, but he took them after the
preaching and washed their stripes
and was baptized, he and all his
house, and when he had brought
them into his house he set meat be-
fore them and rejoiced, believing in
God with all his house. We notice
the preaching was done in the jailor's
house, but the baptism took place
somewhere else, for he brought them
into the house after baptism, which
he could not have done had they al
ready been in the house. do not
pretend to say where he took them
but he took them out of the house
and after the baptism brought them
into the same house, where the
preaching was done. What the Doc
tor says on the born of water will be
noticed in another article, as we are
making this too lengthy. When the
people were baptized in the days Of
John the Baptist, of Jesus Christ and
the Apostles, they went out to the
water (did not have the water brought
to them); they went down into the
water, which thing they do not when
they sprinkle or pour. After the
baptism they came up out of the
water. Where did the baptism take
place? In the water, I would suppose.
In conclusion, will say go like they
did ''unto the water, go down into
the water" he "buried with Christ in
baptism" and raised up with Him,
then walk in newness of life, be
faithful till death and receive crown
of life. DISCIPLE.
The Happy Hours of Childhood.
See the young man. He is not
quite so tall as his younger sister ;
but then he is much simmer. His
cheeks are ruddy as ripening peaches
but they are not quite so downy. He
is raising a moustache. When he
gets two more hairs sprouted on the
right side and one more on the left
he will have three altogether. He
has been nearly five weeks out Of
school, and if he lives and keeps his
health he will be 10 years old in the
third year of Mr.. Cleveland's first
term. Is he an editor? He is q
journalist. He is the man who writes
all the funny jokes about married
men, and how wives talk all night
and what trial and expense a large
family of grown-up daughters Is, and
how many large bills a married mar
has to pay, and how he is always
bald, and stays at the club every
night, and always comes home drunk
and plays poker, and goes to the
theatre with strange ladies ant
lodges his creditors. Does tina
very young man write all those funn.
things? Yes, dear. 1t is because
he is so very young that he write
them. Will he know more as b.
I grows older? Perhaps if he should
live TO be a couple Of thousand year
older he might know little more
Is the young man fresh? Is he? L
he should wade through the ocean
dear, the blue waters of the lou
sounding sea could forever after b
used for drinking purposes.-Burdette