The state capital., 1892-06-04
REV. b. HILLMAN'S REPLY
To sazlfa.es..
G. B. SOUTHWICK. -, The, ABLE
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"The able exponent of Hethodism, J,
is ON his last round; he has fesorted tc
every means to sustain his position
He has spoken falsely, misconstrued
sentences, perverted the scriptures and
borrowed another mans speech offifty
years ago and then fails to sustain his
pos ition.
If he had called on me would have
loaned him book containing the
speech he made, and saved him the
trouble of copying, but forgive him
| for when man is out of brains he
must either stop or borrow another
mans. [ have no time to waste ON gun
boat comparisons for they are not
scriptural facts and have nothing to do
| with the discussion. We will leave
| the public to judge as to whether we
have exhausted our logic in biblical
and historical facts. His generic term
must go, as we'll as many other portions
| of his nOnsensical argument.
| / will now endeavOr to answer all his
questions. 1st zone Lord, One Faith
and One Baptism;'' you ask if that one
| baptism is dipping. Since there is
but one baptism and you acknowledge
| that dipping is one, and have failed to
| prove any other, you answer the ques-
tiOn yourself. You say it has no more
| reference to immersion than to sprink-
ling or pouring, but you fail to produce
| any proof. and assertions, Brother
| Southwick. are not facts. That one
| baptism is dipping SO saith the Bible;
| you do not pretend to deny that the
word Baptize means to dip, but you try
| to make it mean more will give the
| following proof texts in favor of dip
ping: John 3-16; And Jesus when he
was baptized etc. Mark 10 He was
baptized in Jordan. Rom. 6-4 IS; Bap-
| tism is mentioned as burial. 1t rep
| resents planting and resurrection
| Col. PIP; Buried with him in baptism,
wherein also we are raised with him,
through the faith of the operation of
God. who hath raised him from the
dead. In all these passages baptism is
certainly referred to as a dipping, and
Paul declares there is One Lord, One
Faith and One Baptism. and | am
| more inclined to believe the bible than
you. Not word of sprinkling or
pouring is mentioned as baptism.
End "Can one baptiZe in less water
than Is required to wet the subject?"
You refer to Lev. @ and 1st Sam. 9-27
| to prove that you can Now Brother
Southwick why don't you tell the
truth You say the whole finger was
not dipped, The Bible says it was.
Who shall we believe you or the Bible?
How can you afford Ito trifle with Gods
word in this way, 1st Sam. 9-27 And
36hathan :3(1l1 La put i5ftk the end of the rod
and dipped tin the honey comb. The
end OF the rod was commanded to be
commanded to be dipped was baptiz-
entire rod. God commands us to bap-
tie men, not a part of the man but the
whole man When the priest baptized
his finger, the Bible says his finger,
not part of the finger. Jonathan was
commanded to dip a part of the rod
not the whole rod. If you intend to
rely ON these scriptures, you must dip
and not sprinkle or pour, for these and
other passages quoted would certainly
demand it.
4th You ask what was the act per-
formed by John the Baptist. The BIZ
BILE, and every theolOgian of any note,
except yourself and Johnson, (wh0se
speech you horrowed) describes it as
immersion, but perhaps you could be-
lieve DR.. Barnes (the Presbyterian
hero) or James Mcknight (for twenty
years Moderator of the Presbyterian
General Assembly easier than you
could the Bible, since they practice the
things you pretend to believe
DR.. Barnes says; "The Hebrew word
(TabaD is rendered by the word bap-
tie. 1t occurs fifteen times in the
Hebrew Bible. When the Jews trans
lated their scriptures into Greek when
ever they came to this word Tabal
they rendered it haptize, and when our
translators came to this same word
they rendered it by the English word
tdip.n Now Brother Southwiok, if dip
in English and haptize in Greek are
both equivalent to tabal in Hebrew,
are they not equivalent to each other?
Dr.. James Mcknight. On-Rom. GA:
We are buried with him in baptism
unto death. 1t signifies our death and
burial to sin; it serves also to remind
us of the burial and resurrection of
Christ, and prefigures also our own
coming death, burial and resurI ection."
You say--There Is no evidence that
Jesus was baptized in the river, and
that the baptism which he commanded
was performed by sprinkling and that
Jonn's baptism was not christian
baptism, but it was the baptism of re-
pentance designed TO introduce chris
tianity. In this you have overlooked
the word of God altogether, Mark IL
The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ etc., and yet you tell me it was
no part of the Gospel. What difference
does it make whether Johns baptism
was christian baptism or not. the act
performed Is the question, John did
something which Is called baptism
and great multitudes were baptized by
him In the river Of Jordan, and Jesus
was also baptized in the river. Wheth-
er Johns baptism was christian bap-
tism or not, Jesus accepted it, and
commanded the disciples to perform it
in all ages. Why did our Saviour and
His Apostles make use of this particu-
lar word, baptizo, 10 express or describe
the ordinance which He committed to
His churches, and enjoined ON all His
disciples? The Greek language is rich
in terms to express all positive ideas,
as well as varying shades of meaning.
Why was this .one word alone selected
for this special but important use?
Baptizo is found eighty times in the
New Testa ment. In nearly seventy.
it is used to designate the ordinance of
baptism. DIR. Carson, Prof. Stuart,
and others, have abundantly proven
that this word means to dip, plunge,
or immerse, and that itmeans nothing
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