Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-04-15
DUNCAN'S GOSPEL LESSONS.
REPLY No. l6.

REPLY No. l6.
During the summer of 1879 was
engaged in controversy with Prof.
%. A. c.. of Columbia, Mo-, in the
columns of the Monroe County 4p-
peal. In his very first reply Prof. G.
applied to me such elegant. classical
epithets as "fool," ''simpleton,'' eIc.
Again in 1881 I felt it my duty to
reply to some very transparent arti-
cles from tue pen of Elder Butler, of
Ontario, Canada, through the col
umns of a Canadian paper, and 1
enjoyed the, privilege OF having all
kinds of scurllieus names and desig-
nations applied to me by the Cana
dian giant. And now since 1 have
been so rash and indiscreet as to
attack the gospel of Mr. M. Y. Dun
can and expose it's errors and explode
It's fallacies Mr.. d. has well nigh ex-
hausted himself hurling at me such
euphonious epithets as deg" ''de-
mon,' "ass-in-lion's skin," etc, lad
nduseam. All these gentlemen be-
long to the same ehurch-one that
claims to be, par excellence, the
Christian CD church. Why are they
so restless and intolerant under op-
position? Why SO little courtesy
list Peter 3 :8) toward an opponent? ?
Is it an evidence of confidence in the
stability and eorrectness of their
system that they are so impatient with
every one who differs from them and
has the temerity to speak out his OBJ
jections? The spirit of Christianity
toward an opponent is laid down by
Paul in I'd Timothy 2:24, 25. The
only explanation of the rudeness and
discourtesy Of these Christian %
gentlemen is found in the fact that
the church of which they are mem
bers was .'begun in 1909" and is too
far remevedirom the time of Christ
to have imbibed any of the spirit of
the Christianity of the New Testa-
ment. When 1 began these replies
to Mr.. Duncan I was well aware of
the temper and spirit of the men ]
was dealing with and was not sur
prised when he began his furious
railery. have survived worse storms
than the one now raging and I hope
to weather through this,
1t is fortunate for Mr.. Duncan's s
cause that he is innocent of any
knowledge of the original of the New
Testament, for he is thereby
able to make many bold as
| sertions that no man with even 8
| smattering knowledge of Greek would
dare make. 1st Mr.. Duncan says
of Acts 1884, ''the jailor believed
and all his house believed" where the
verb rejolced is in the third person
Isingular, and agrees with the jailol
alone, while the participle believing
is IN the singular number and mas
cnline gender and agrees with ano
refers to the jailor and one else
The word translated with all his
house" is the adverb panoiki, which
modifies the verb rejoiced, and tell
the manner or extent Of the jailor'
lreioicing. 1t may be rendered
..heartily." enthusiastically" to IN
tdicate that his Joy was complete ant
thorough. The revised version read
this clause, '.and he rejoiced greatly
with all his house, having believed il
IGod." Mr.. D. is all oblivious OF tn
fact that the word rendered house Il
the thirty-second verse is o'kfdn,
very different word from the on
rendered household in verse thirty
one. There it is oikos. 1t mean
family and has especial reference t
children---even to babes unborn. Il
/ man whose early educati"n ha
been neglected like Mr.. DIS IT ma
be all guess work. and he may go o
supposing one thing or another
To one who has even limited know
edee Of the Greek of the Old and Me-
ITestament there is no guess work 9
supposing about it 0ihos mean
family. and man and wife withot
children have no family. A wife, II
advanced in pregnancy, IS proper
said to be in family way. bt
without children there is no family
And now to show that am M
..supposing case. as MIR. Dnnca
vas let the reader look up the TO
lowing passages Of scripture: De
la 40. ..and shall be destroyed an
| INV oikos '-falniIy; Numbers 1853
sand swallowed them up and the
i skx,ss.--famiiaes; and verse u tel
has their families cons's'ed !
sons and their little ones
!, - - .shuild up his brother
80. 80, Be. = means raise up chi
" a. brother See MAJ
81 81 + Z { see Psalm Ia;
/ ] s go. ,as 81 baLdesA up q