The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-13
FATHER BRANNAN.
The Lecturer Replies to One Of His
Houston Critics,
(The following letter from Rev. Father
Brannan has been unavoIdably delayed In
publication.)

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, To the Editor OF The Post.
On leaving the city last Tuesday morn
Ing | saw in The Post so-called answer
to my sermon OF the 2ist instant at the
Annunciaton church. 1t could hardly be
supposed that sermon requiring an hour
and half for delivery could be condensed
In the space given by The Post, with more
than approximate accuracy.
Mr.. Lamkin says that | freely accuse
Protestants of prejudice, but that be has
none. Everywhere / go many Protestants
tell me that after having listened to my
exposition OF Catholic falch, that their
prejudices have been removed. or course,
would not be able to remove their
prejudices unless THY had them before
hand. The gentleman Is certainly an
anomaly for Of all the prejudice | have
had to contend with in my missionary la
bors. have found the most virulent and
pronounced type OF 1t In that denonina-
| ticn OF which he Is such q unique exp gnent
Lamkin appears 10 be an abbreyiat on u
| lambkln, which means n little lamb, like
! Mary had. A little lamb suggests innocence
and can now understand that ne is too in-
nocent 10 harbor prejudice against ANY
church Or man." Every Que, he thinks.
| Is In error except the Baptists, as they
| nave the faith once delivered to the
saints" and that faith has been repre-
scented by Baptists, he says for 1900 years.
| DEFY Mr.. Lamkin or any other man to
! show that any sect, from Jesus Christ TO
Martin Luther. was identical in its en-
tire creed with any OF the divers and
sundry sects OF Bapllsts now on the race
OF the earth
Baptists, believe. claim John the Bap-
list for their religious progenitor As there
are twelve kinds Of Bapt.sts 10 the United
states alone, with other countries to hear
| from. 1t would certainly be an interesting
| thing to know by what reeondite and than
inaturgical process the recursor OF Christ
| hecame twelve kinds OF John the Blp-
tlst. | have heard OF John, and demijohn
but ! would not shock the proprieties, even
by the remotest innueHdo that Baptist
| preacher knew anything about the latter
ioeinlJohn might mean a half John but
| II Is too great a strain upon the tension
OF human credulity to suppose that there
was duodecimal John Let us see. These
are the B1ptlsts of the United States: Reg
ular tNorthl. regular tSouth) Six Prn-
| clple, Seventh Day, Freewil. Original
ireewili General. Separate United, Bap-
ust Chufch OF Christ, Primitive, Old Two
Seed in the Spirit Pred stlnarlan.
Prodiglous fecundityl This is certainly
an interesting progeny of spiritual amphi-
| bians. All differing yet each one has. OF
course, the faith once delivered to the
| saints"
OF all the egreglous and extravagant
Authorizations known to me in the Chris
tan dIspensatlon, Baptlsts claiming sue
cesslon from the apostles cr-ioy tirr' dis
l'nction OF occupying the trout seat The
lrst mention we ever hear OF a eect OF
mat name was In the year 1920. when
Nicholas Stork started the Anabaptlst
church
Webster was not Catholic He wrote for
the general public. He says the Anabapti.ts
were fanatoal sect originating during
the time OF the reformation
The Book Of Religions" by John Hay
ward, Protestant, says that the Baptirts
| or America were founded by Roger VIII
Jams In Rhode Island In the year 1899 So
MT Williams deposited 50 to speak, one
baptist egg in 1889 and by Come mystcrl-
Gus process Of ovarian fertilization a few
hundred years Of incubation has discovered
the fact that there were twelve kinds OF
baptist chickens in the original egg. Ard
| even the Hard Shell" Is numbered ia
Increase the multiplication. Wonderful
egg! The pivotal point OF difference be
| tween Baptists and other Protestants
understand TO be this: They Bnptists. soy
that Infants should rot be- banti2ed nj Mi
ana mat adults or believers only should
be baptlzed aud that there Is no baptism
unless the body OF the person Is complete
~ immersed or, In ether words, put under
the water. But yet baptism Is not nj all
necessary for salvation, so they say,
| strange to say that man can become a
citizen aud member OF the Kingdom OF
Heaven without being Immersed, but YOU
cant be member Of the Baptist church
on earth without being Immersed Thry
say their church Is the Kingdom OF God
on earth and that they alone have tho
lalth once delivered 70 the saints" WHY
H. tnel, mat can can't be member
OF their so-called Kingdom of God on earth
without being immersed and stu he may
so 20 the Kingdom of Heaven without I'M
inersion at nllF Shall they impose condl-
'iohs Tor acceptance into their church.
whlch God does not require to enable
thenl 10 reach Heaven' Why should II he
| less burdensome to get into Hcoven than
70 get into Baptist church? II peonle,
then, may GO to Heaven without being
| oapuzed and consequently not members
OF the baptist church, what place dos II
MI In The economy OF mans salvation N
you can go 10 Heaven MS well without II
MS well as with ito Why support nreacher
ana HE family to preach n doctrine on
winch they ground their denomiuAtinnal
uiherence. when you don't need tn lnn.
Urine and can 20 10 Heaven without II?
How does 1t become important Ia what
particular manner thing is done. n the
ming ltself Is not necessary for salvation
The Catholic church teaches that bap,tsm
Is necessary for salvation and II the Sbrlp-
'urN means what II says will prove It.
the Kingdom Of Heaven belongs TO Jesus
IhrlS', aud He had the right 10 impose
any conditions He saw proper for obtain
ing IT. After His resurrection from the
dead after all His suffering for us
no made this u condition: "Hc that
heileVeth and is haptzod shall h. saved.
but he that helievoth not shah be damned :;
Mark xYil6, Does no; Jesus Christ here
make dual condition for salvation when /
ne says we must not only believe but ais, I
be baptized before we can he sayyd2 And /
u two conditions are required and one only |
performed how shall the man be s,vedq
Jesus Christ makes baptism as essential |
as belief because He requires both as
conditions Of salvation. When He utter.d /
ms expression He either told truth or |
faisehood, To say that Jesus Christ ioId |
lie is TO blssphcme Him. an Christians
say He could not tell lie. and. OF course
when He said "He that belieyeth ana Is |
oaptised shall he saved" He told the truth
and II He did, how Is man goine IN |
oe saved unless he Is baptized Where
Two conditions are imposed 10 Obtain +. !
certain result, one Will MT suFfico c.