Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-11-09
REV. JACKSON DISCUSSES BAP.
TISM TO THE LARGEST AU-
DIESCES EVER IN THE
METHODIST CHURCH.
The Sprinklers and immersi0nists
Listened to The Two Sermons
With Intense I~nterest-A
Brief Synopsis.

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occupied, and many were turned
away. At night the climax was
capped-besides the church being
uncomfortably filled hundreds were
unable to elbow their way in hear
ing distance of the preachers voice.
1t had been announced that Rev.
J. III. Jackson would deliver two
discourses on the scriptural mode OF
baptism. Every religious denomi-
nation in Mexico was numerously
represented. The immersionists were
there in large numbers.
In the morning Rev. Jackson
read as a scriptural lesson Romans
Gill. In the evening he read Co.
lossians 2:S-15. After some pre-
liminary and general observations
he said:
~ do not preach these sermons as
a controvertialist, but to indoctrin.
ate those who wait on my ministry
that they may ever be able to give
a reason for their faith and practice,
"We are not mOdests; we practice
administering baptism by effusion,
i. g., sprinkling or pouring, and by
immersion. We admit the validity
of baptism by immersion not by rea.
son of the immersion, but in spite
of it. AS to it being taught in the
Scriptures we demur.
"We do not believe baptism by
any mode to be a condition of the
remission of sins. Cornelius, st.
Paul and others were converted be.
fore water baptism was administer,
ed to them.
"We do not believe the command
to go and baptize all nations to be as
binding Gas regards water baptism)
as when uttered by our Savior and
for this reason: We see st. Paul do
ing some things under the spiritual
affiatus the Saviour could not do be-
cause they could not bear them. We
see him abolishing circumcision and
so toning down the command to
baptize as to not regard it as in his
commission. Hear him in 1st Cor.
ILL: "Christ sent me not to bap-
tie, but to preach the gospel"
1t is possible, in the jealous support
of pet theory and in b~olstering up
a mode of baptism, to get Paul's dec
laration reversed.
"Again, our ideas as to emphasis
placed on baptism are toned down
from the fact that the record is ST.
lent as to any of the twelve Apostles
ever receiving Christian baptism.
Paul was baptized, and by effusion,
as we shall see.
"Christ never received Christian
baptism. How could He when He
had gone to Heaven ten days before
it was instituted? Johns baptism
was not Christian baptism. See Acts
Following our Lord in the
act of baptism is mere sentiment,
Tor He never received Christian bap-
ism. He is not our example in
Of ceremonial observances; if
20 it would submit us to circum-
,ision and initiation into the church
At the age of eight days and observe
nent of the Passover, etc. He is
IN example to US in the spirit of His
life. See Romans SO.
"It is tacitly admitted on all
lands that water baptism is not es-
iential to salvation. Then we de-
nur to an essential mode of doing a
lon-essential thing.
ga mode having so much excel
ency of merit in it as is claimed for
immersion ought to demonstrate it's
.xcellency in the superior quality of
he goods put on the market, i. e.,
long-suffering, tolerance,
tc. However, effusionists would
ardly suffer in the comparison. L,
18th all my heart, believe ~effusion to
q the scriptural mode of water bap.
SIN, but this does not trammel me
4 acknowledging that immersion
I'LL do for baptism. Amplias, my
rother, Amplias."
Rev. Jackson then took for his
LIST Thessalonians 5:21-
Prove all things: hold fast that
hich is good"
First. The issue joined is be-
yeen effusion and immersion.
fusion means sprinkle Or pour.
IMMERSION means put under, cover
yer, etc. My first reason there, i
re in favor of sprinkling and pour I
g for baptism as against INNER +.
On is that sprinkling and pouring {
eur frequently in both the Old ,
Id New Testaments and in con- g
'ction with baptism; while neither
,merse nor its equivalents are d
und in the Bible. !;
Second. The versions of the t
ew Testament, gotten out by inn
in which immense is d
serted wherever the word baptize b
ours, fell ,"still born" from the s
ess and even its friends will not 1
3 1t. The travesty on the mean a
J OF the original is too apparent. v
That New Testament il
eek is a separate and distinct fc
ON of the Greek language, and o