San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-23
HIS MEDICATION
A Reply to Mack Henson.
Editor san Antonio Light.

Editor San Antonio Light.
Having been invited by Bishop J. W. Carr,
left my home in Paducah, KY, on April l, ar
irving in this city on the 3D. inst, and have
since been assisting him in Il very interesting
and highly successful meeting, in which l2j
souls have prOlesscd Il hope in Christ. On last
sunday was requested to preach what was
termed II baptismal sermon, which request |
complied with, rs ! understood the Scriptures.
1t was not my purpose in leaving home to ac-
quirc a newspaper nOtUrcty; but seeing in
your paper of the 2th inst, some nibblings at
me from Rev. Mack Henson, who seems to need
some information rs to "A Bible Bishop and
Bible baptism. Although ! am told that this
Mack Henson is renegade from Il 10 years
membership in the Baptist church, | shall on
that account give the information asked for
more for the masses than Mr. Henson. will
perhaps only notice Bishop and Baptism. Well,
who is Bishop That is a new Testament
Bishop. Any ordained minister of the Baptist
church is Il Bishop. During the first and second
century was person who had the care of one
Christian assembly; in this assembly he acted
not so much with the authority of II master,
as with the zeal and diligence of Il faithful
servant See Encyclopedia of Religious Knowl-
edge page lS9. Bishop Episcopal: 1t is once
applied 10 Christ Ton. pOimenakOsi episkO-
pom, ! Pet. 10; but in another place il is
spoken Of men who have the oversight of
Christs flock, because the same men are called
both Bishop and PrCsbyter or Elder; with the
Bishops and DcacOns sun pOmena kai episko-
kO nOis, phil |, l. Other scriptures speak of
~,
which means overscer: Bishop then is an
ordained minister of Baptist church; Bap-
fist church is the church of Jesus Christ of
ApOstOlical succession; says DIR. Ypheij,
professor of theology at Groningen.
and the Rev. j. j. Dermont, chap
lain to the King of the Netherlands
Learned Pedo-Baptist. We have now seen
that the Baptist who formally called Ana
baptist and in later times Mennonites
were the original Wadepses, and who have
long, in the history OF the church, received the
honor of that origin. On this account the Bap.
fist may be considered as the only Christian
community which has stood since the days of
the Apostles and as a Christian society which
has preserved pure the doctrines Of the Cos
pei through all ages. The perfectly correct
eternal and internal economy of the Baptist
denomination tends to confirm the truth, dis
puted by the ROmish Church. that the refOrma-
ton brought about in the Sixteenth Century
was in the highest degree necessary, and at
the same time goes to refute the erroneous
notion of the Catholics that their communion
Is the most ancient. lSee encyclopedia of re-
ligiOus knowledge, page 1851. From the above
and from the New Testament IL can be seen
that the Baptist denomination is the successor
Of the Apostolic churches, and consequently
her ministers are New Testament bishops
elders or pastors. Regard him a bishop in the
sense of being ordained a bishop by the only
church that has stood since the Apostles; but
not as ordained by that society that was
founded in 1929, and that lacks 1897
years of being old enough to be
the Church of Christ Jesus, and Mr.. Hen
Christ whatever; his claim is false, 1t is 1857
years too young TO go into court. No las.
sumption of another appellation" that other
has no other but an assumed appellaton. The
Methodist get their Bishopric by Francis Ash
berry, and DIR. Coke's signing their names as
Bishops to the minutes OF the conference held
in Baltimore, Nd, in 1854. They were not
ordained Bishops even by their society, that
was only IS years old at that time, but they as
sumed the appellation of another, what says
you Mr.. HensonI Now, for baptism, what is
IL immersion only. Who said so The New
Testament, and DIR. Adam Clark, the learned
dCVine in the Methodist Society, K:i Ebapti-
ZOntO, and were Immersed. Matt. 3, 8. E,yOm
BaptiZO humas en- hudati. | indeed immcrsC
you in water II vs. BaptisthCis hOiesOus a ebee
and Jesus being immersed went up, II V no
pisteusas Kai Baptisthcis SOtheesetai, he who
believes and Is immersed will be saved
Mark 10. 10. own antO dia tOu baptismatOs.
We have therefore been entOmbeJ With him
by the immersion. DIR. Adam Clark, the great
Methodist divine, on this passage, Roman d,
4. Says the apostle here alludes TO mode of
administering Baptism by immersion, the
whole body being put under the water. Now
mark il, the apostle says, DIR. Clark, the great
est Methodist scholar, alludes TO the mode Of
administering Baptism by immersion, the
whole body being put under the water. Very
well If such n scholar as DIR. Clark says that
immersion was the mode, why, will Just let
the little San Antonio nibler try him Clark.
Buried with him in Baptism abiding 10 the
immersion praCtised in the case Of adults. DR..
A. Clark col. 2, Il. Well we lind immersion
enough perhaps for all but the nibler. Now
let DR. Paul settle the only Baptism Ephesians
4, 3. One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, |
have written enough, but | would like TO add
is my own composition, and has not been COM
~ WV @. W. DuPEE.
San Antonio, Texas, April q, 1886.