Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-01-28
DUNCAN's GOSPEL LESSONS.

bis readers that he has ''fully estab-
Iished'' that baptism is form order
to-remission of sins. 1t is well
that he told us ''poor people" that he
had done 1t, for no one in his right
mind would ever have dreamed that
his lessons established anything SO
we'll as the inherent weakness of Mr..
DIS gospel.
Look over those lessons again,
gentle reader, and see how many pas
sages of scripture Mr.. Duncan has
brought forward to prove-''fully
establish (?)-his proposition. How
many? just one only. And that
solitary one is misinterpreted and
so treated as to make it contradict
other plain scriptures. In Acts
26: :I8 we have Paul's commission as
an Apostle. Paul was sent to so
preach to the Geatiles that they |
might "receive the forgiveness OF
their SINS" but he was mot sent to
haptize, Qst Cor. 1:lO nor is the
word ''baptize" found in his commits
sion. Mr.. Duncan's gospel makes
the salvation of a sinner depend on
the will and caprices of third party.
Not 40 the posDel of Christ,
And then comes G rehash of Dis
ciple's proof (D that immersion is the
only baptism. And what proof tits!
Simply the tradition of the elders!
And the same elders that Disciple
quoted last spring-Calvin, Luther,
Anthem, ETC. Even if all the authors
quoted said exactly what Mr.. Dun
can says not one of them taught or
believed what Mr.. Duncan is trying
to prove by them. They would all
repudiate their own words as they
are used by Mr.. Duncan and his
friends. Will Mr.. Duncan, as law
yer, tell us poor people what the tes-
timony of a witness is worth when
he testifes on both sides of the same
question? He quotes Calvin and
mistranslates him. I will see how
Calvin testifes. In his Catechism
PIP 80, SO, note, Calvin says: 'sThen
the minister pours water on the head
I of the infant, saying, baptize thee
in the name of the Father, Sun and
Holy Ghost" and then adds: 'It
cannot by any means be denied
: that we hold the same form anC
: method of baptism which Chris
> prescribed and the Apostles fol
1 lowed" Mr.. Duncan had Calvir
9 stand aside too soon. So will
Luther. For during long series o
years Luther continued to pou
!, water on the heads of the children
s and say, II baptize thee,' etc. Nov
if Luther belived what Mr.. Duncan
u gospel teaches, or anything like it
y he was either crank or hypocrite
Il In either case his evidence ought t.
y be thrown out of court. But more
: Mr.. DIS quotation from Luther say
q .sthey ought to be wholly immerse
't and then Immediately drawn out, TO
1t that the etymology of the word seem
" to demand" Now I will show yol
), gentle reader, that Luther was nc
d, posted on the etymology OF ths
ol word baptizo. will call on the wi
'o ness stand DR.. Kendrick, of Roche
O. ter, N. Y, professor in the Bapti'
Ih Seminary. DIR. Kendrick says
a Baptist Quarterly, April, 1863: 50
u is not dipping that our Lord inst
OF tuted. He did not command to p'
Ii people into the water and take the
We out again, but to put them under tt
ny water. Granting that bapto alwa..
tn engages to take its subject out
n the water, (which we do not 5eliev'
by and that 'baptizo' never does enga'
Is to take its subject out of the wate
Ct which we readily admit) ETC." Al
sh DIR. T. J. Conant, the head of t
Baptist bible revision movement, sa
ne on p S8 of his "Baptizein" st
he idea of eDersion is not included
no the meaning of the Greek wor
me (baptizo.") This is the testimo
'ed of two of the ablest scholars (Ba
Inc tists) on the continent. There Is
ose taking out of the water in bapti
ave And the command to baptize in \
the Duncan's gospel is a command
the put people under the water and
Ok them stay under-or in other wo'
in it is a command to drown them!
to Luther is a poor witness on the e
and mology of the word.
als. Mr.. D. quotes DR.. Anthon as
the primary meaning of the WI
as baptizo. Did Mr.. Duncan ever
ent, lexicon that gives the New Te'
of ment meaning of any Greek word
hild the primary meaning' If he die
oint would like to know the name.
to Anthon, like many other schol'
believed that the meaning of
n. words in the Greek Testament "
almost all derived meanings
n'a' primary, nor classical. just
~ Scbleusner in his lexicon-a
giving "dip in and submerse'
' classic meanings of baptizo, he So
anu "But in this sense it is never use
e' the New Testament So much
AVA the tradition of the elders.
' Then Mr.. d. comes to the clas'
o"' . So closely does he follow Disc