Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-11-09
"TW ENTY REASONS"
One Hundred Dollars Reward.

To the Editor of the Ledger.
MEXICO, Mo-, Nov. 7.-DEAR SIR
read Bro. Jackson's "Twenty Rea
sons" as published in your paper
and was disappointed therein.
really expected something new, bu'
10 and behold, the same old job To-
that has been reintroduced, ad ibi.
tum, adj nauseam. In 1887 The
Rev. Virgil w. Tevis, of the
M. E. Church, and Elder J. S
Sweeny went-over this same ground
or so nearly the same-that it il
just as proper to play Sweeny against
Jackson as it is to play Sweeny
against Tevis. The Tevis-S weeny
controversy was published in pam
phlet form by mutual agreement o.
the parties under the caption,
"What Must I Do to Be Saved" al
the publishing house of I. T. Brown,
of Columbus, Ind. Let Mr.. Jack.
son state some of his propositions
and let Sweeny reply. 1t would
take too much of your space to 60
over all the ground, and then if you
knock out a single one of his "rea.
sons" the balance will tumble Of
their own weight. Besides, there is
a possible hundred dollars reward
in this thing for Bro. Jackson, and
I am particularly DESTROYS that the
brothers. good wife shall have the
same for a Christmas box.
Among other things Bro. Jackson
says:
"First. The issue joined is be-
tween effusion andimmersion Effus-
ion means sprinkle Or pour. INNER
sion means put under, cover over,
etc. Ny first reason therefore in
favor OF sprinkling and pouring for
baptism as against immersion is
that sprinkling and pouring occur
frequently in both the Old and New
Testaments and in connection with
baptism; while neither immerse nor
its equivalents are found in the
Bible.
"Third. That New Testament
Greek is a separate and distinct
idiom of the Greek language, and
in it baptidzo is never used in the
sense OF immerse-[See Robinson,
Greenfield and Schlushner as New
Testament Greek photographers.
Bro. Sweeny, at pages 81, 6S and
SO, says:
But the Lord has commanded
the believer to be baptized. Does
mean anything by "baptized?"
| think He does. And this brings
to Mr.. IT'S definition of the
"What does the word bap-
TIED mean? Il do not like to
quote Greek, and do not often do
80, as it makes a man appear de-
sirous Of exhibiting his learning.
is from the Greek word baptizo;
and this signifies to ir1merse, to
sprinkle, to pour, to wash,' and
many other terms of similar i'm
The gentleman need suffer
40 great distress of mind about
exhibiting his learning" if this is
he only exhibit of the kind he
yer makes. Immerse, sprinkle,
'our, wash, and many other terms
# similar import "Similar" tol
which? "To immense, to sprinkle,
0 pour" are words OF very dis
imllar import. They import very
.ifferent actions, do they not? |,
hen to which of the three are the
many other terms'' similar in !,
IMPORT? If they are similar to +,
nmerse, they are certainly not SIM ,
ar to sprinkle; for immense and I
prinkle are dissimilar actions,
eeidedly so. The gentleman made !
exhibition in this definition of !;
beyond doubt, but it was .
ot one Of learning. Where did bel;
arm that baptizo signifies ito :
'rinkle,t to pour2"Does any Greek :
nglish lexicon in the world so de. .
ne the word7 | could afford to !
Ter, and | will, one hundred doll :
rs for such a current Greek En- :
ish lexicon. | shall suffer no un. q
siness about my offer; for, in the I,
st place, ! am satisfied that there
no such book and, in the second; !,
ace, if be were to produce such a :.
., | could sell it to the pedobap. 8