Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-04-22

charge, to take the spoil, and to take
the prey, and to tread them down
like the mire of the streets. Where
fore it shall come to pass that when
the Lord hath performed his whole
work upon Mount Zion and on Jerus-
alem, 1 will punish the fruit of the
stout heart of the king of Assyria,
and the glory of his high looks"
{ Revised Versiou). just look at this,
Mr. Duncan. The Lord sent that
king to do u work and then punished |
him severely for doing the very thing
he was sent to effect! He foreor-
dained that Senuacherib should do
exactly the work described, and then
destroyed his army and had him
slain for accomplishing what was
already ''foreordained to come to
pass" l have no doubt that Mr. d.
thinks that Esop's Fables is better
literature than a large portion of the
bible, for Esop is faverite author
with him anyhow.
And he complains that / 'deny
that Christ's body was buried!" /
did more than that; I proved that it
was not, ard further, / demonstrated
that the laying of The mangled body
of the Lord in the rock was a mere
matter of human convenience. and
not fact of the gospel nor any part
of the gospel plan of redemption. So
that those who dip people into the
water for baptism are attempting to
symbolic as a fact of the gospel
what never was a gospel fact nor a
fact of any other kind! And all that
is left Mr.. Duncan to do is to cry,
Qike the mob at Ephesus) ''great is
dipping-immersion, which all the
Baptists, Disciples, Tunkors and
Mormons do worship!" But his only
comfort is the 'confession of faith
saws that Christ was buried! - Well.
suppose it does; is that any authority
with Mr.. d. or his friends? Only
last week he preferred Esop's Fables
to the confession. And l can inform
Mr.. d. that the confession in at least
three places (pp. IS, 113, 1867 ex
Ipressly declares that nothing in the
confession is of the least binding
force on PresbyteTans, except wha
is taught by the holy spirit speak
ing in the scriptures. AS 1 have
the bible on my side (and that /:
where Mr.. d. and his friends profes.
to meet others) I am not at all con
cerned about the matter, though i
would not be very hard to show tha
Mr.. d. is not very safe witness a
! to what the confession teaches Oh
this question or any ether.
Mr.. DIS gospel is in sad case
No dip in baptizo; no Into" il
| els; no "out Of in Ell; no ''immerse'
in the bible; no place in the Ne,
, Testament where baptism and re
| mission of sins are used in compli
nentary relations; Jesus, and no
, Christ, is the name of the Lord, an,
so his argument for the name of th
Lords people is gone; his churc
. was started in 1909, (or more accu
rately Nov. Is, 1927. Lydia wa
| a wife, with a family of children, VIII
E were baptized on the faith of thei
5 mother or entirely without faitl
/. The body of the Lord was neve
F, buried and his being laid in the roc
S was not gospel fact, and all thi
, talk about symholizing burial b
l dipping into and under water is pur
: fiction! Alas! alas! Mr.. d. and hi
!. partner have lost their occupation
: Not an argument has been brougf
! forward by Mr.. Duncan In support {
his system but what 1 have oveI
= thrown.
d He has asserted that I contradi'
e the lexicons about the word "gune
(wife). Let him tell the readers {
e the LEDGER what the n. T. Gree
It word for "wife" is. The word fl
3 virgin (maid) is '.parthenos. Th'
J, word is used Il times in the Ne
J, Testament. Mr.. d. did not tell wa
|, lexicon says that "gune" meal
g ''maid,' and it is well he did not Fl
;, this question is settled by refcren'
is to the n. T. use of the word in l
u Cor. 1884. Paul says, ''There is
# difference also between wife (guas
1T and virgin (maid-pdrthenos). I'll
h unmarried woman careth for Il
y things of the Lord, that she may
III holy both in body and spirit; but 81
that is married (the wife-gan
as fcareth for the things Of the worl
to how she may please her husband
is Any reader can see that Paul he
III calls the ''gume" q married wom
5h and uses the word in contrast wi
le one that means swithout a husband
Is 1 trust that Mr.. Duncan will ne
III "give it up"
y I again request the readers to p
,h serve the LEBeERs containing the
te articles for future reference. l "
lis next attend to some things in Dt
of cans paper of April 8th.
pc I. GALLAHER.
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