Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-05-06
DUNCaN's GOSPEL LESSONS.
REPLY NO. ID,

readers of the LEDGER to preserve
this correspondence, Mr.. Duncan
is so very forgetful he cannot remem-
her from enc week to another what l
say in my replies. In my paper of
Jan. 7th quoted the very words Of
Paul in 1st Cor. lit, Christ sent
me not to bapuze, but to preach the
Gospel" And then again January
2Sth, l quoted the same words and
gave the same reference, And now
Mr. Duncan, April 22nd, declares
that "deny that Paul ever baptized
any one," when have not said a word
on the subject except in the very
words of the Apostle himself. His
memory needs to be "half-seled."
In my paper of Feb. 11th I quoted
Eph. 6,17 and said 1T is true the
word of God is the sword of the
spirit, but it is also true that the
spirit must aoield his own sword
Paul preached the word, read the
word and taught the word, and yet
he says { lst Cor. 3, 5, 6. "Who then
is Paul, and who is Apollos but min
listers by who ye believed, even as
the Lord ga0e to every man. have
planted, Apollos watered, but God
gaze the increase" So in 1st Cor.
"a, he says, "And my speech and
my preaching were not in persuasive
words of wisdom, but in demonstra-
ton Of the spirit and of po,cer. 3"
When Mr.. Duncan said that "Peter
slew 1000 vile sinners on Pentecost
with the sword of the spirit he
forgot that the Old Testament was
the only part of the word cf God
then in existence. (See his lesson
No. y If the Old Testament was
the sword of the spirit on the day Of
Pentecost, it is the sword of the
spirit yet. Then why does Mr.. D.
object to my quoting from the WORD
of God from which Peter preached
on Pentecost? "Ah, the legs of the
lame are not equal!''
Duncan's darling, man-made theo
ry has been attacked and seems likely
to be ruined and he is in great dis.
tress, like Micah of old Judge:
1924 he is ready to cry out ''Yor
have taken away my gods which
made, and what have I more?'
That accounts for his blunders ant
erroneous statements. The record
in Luke "a, AZ, 49, does not contain
the words baptize or baptism at all
and cannot be quoted as commits
sion to administer that ordinance
Mr.. Duncan has forgotten that
quoted that very scripture to prov
that remission of SIM was preached
land promised where there is n
mention of baptism. Mr.. DIS eye
sight is so bad and his memory s.
treacherous that he cannot quot
correctly what said. April 18th
said "the baptism of Penteeost di
not come under the great commission
at all (Math. %, 10, 2O,) eroept i
so far as by their rejection Of Chris
as the promised Messiah, they 9Th
Jeacs) had made GentiIes Of them
selues." SO that Duncan's statemen
of April % is imam of straw c
his own make.
According to the divine law (Matl
10, So; Mark 10-S; Gen. 2-24,)
man and his wife are ''one;" an
where there are no children, the
neither have family, nor do the
= constitute family, and the decisio
of constable or any civil office
cannot change the divine law. .
man and wife, without children car
not constitute family.
e I have proven that Paul does nc
say in 1st Cor. Is 4 that Christ we
buried.' but that the words of I'll
= Apostle are that che was prepare
for burial" and the records sho
that he was not buried. But Kin
| James translation makes Paul 50
!. she was buried" and Mr.. Dunca
now is hanging his hopes of salv'
ton from present ruin on Kin
James translation! He refers
'.Acts 2nd chap, King james tran
:. lation for an account of the orga'
: ization of the church by the Aposil,
Why did he not give US the verse,
n well as the chapter? Simply becau'
" there is no verse in Acts, End chapt
that says single word about al
4 body organizing church! II
word .schurch" occurs but IN yer
AZ in the commonly received versio
2 in the words "And the Lord add'
. to the church daily such as shou
be saved" Not a word or a syll
bic in the whole chapter about c
ganizing church that day. Ev
, if that reading was undoubtedly &C
rect, the church to which the Lo
added the saved (mark that! t
Lord did the adding to the chur
ON that dsy,) might have been in e
istence for ages. l have alrea'
I proven beyond denial that the Lo
/: had pure, visible, spiritual chur
ages before the day of Pentecost, a
that same church was in actual, V
ible existence up TO, and at that tin
q and when those Jews, who had
iected the Messiah, and had "be
hroken off because of unbelle