The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-13

they were sorry and cried OUT: "Men and
brethren, what shall we do?" verse 81
Then Peter said unto them: Repent aad
baptized every one OF you in the name o.
Jesus Christ, for the remission OF sins
and We shall receive the gift OF the Hoy
Ghost" st. Peter was present and was
one OF the number to whom Jesus Christ
had said: "Ile that believeth and Is bap-
TIED shall be saved, but he that belieyeth
not shall be damned" Therefore, when be
saw they believed, when he saw they
repented there was something else re-
CURED to take away their sins What was
1t? BE baptized every one OF you in the
name of Jesus Christ (what for) for the
| remission OF sins" Webster says rem issioa
means pardon, forgiveness: therefore they
were baptized for the pardon, forgiveness
or remission OF sin II baptism was ef-
fectuai as an element in the remission aud
forgiveness OF sin In the First century.
! why Is 1t not equally effectual In the
Nineteenth? Have the words of Christ lost
| their efficacy because ID has been nearly
| 1900 years since He uttered them2 Is 1t not
I a strange thing that Baptsts laugh at
ceremonies in the Catholic church and
! yet tho basic, distinctive principle OF their
religion is ceremony of taking out an
| individual into the water in the pre- sence,
| maybe, Of a thousand people, the preacher
utt ring few words, and the shivefing
candidate saturated with branch water
| rising up gasping for breath. seeking a
seclusion to put on dry clothing, all Of
which, according to their own teaching
being unnecessary for salvation, or for
the Kingdom Of God, which Is the same
! thing Read Acts xxii:1-17. Here we find
| that st. Paul was on his way to Damascus.
| He was bent, as he tells u.s. on the psrse-
| cution OF those who believed in Jesus
Christ. About noon" he says. "sudd n y
there shone from Heaven a great light
I round about me. And fell unto the ground
ana heard voice saving unto me:
| saul. Saul, why persecutest thou me?'
! ANA answered. Who art thou Lord?' And
he said unto me; 4 am Jesus OF Nazareth
| whom thou persecutest' And
said What shall | do Lord?'" Christ then
told him to go into Damascus and there
| II should be told him the things he was
to do ST. Paul being struck with blindness
was led by the hand into Damascus "And
one Ananias a devout man, according to
the law. having good report Of all tho
Jews which dwelt there, came unto me and
stood and said unto me: Brother Saul, re-
ceivc thy sight" After receiving his
sight Ananias told him OF the great things
God had designed for him and as though
he were inpatient to qualify him at once
for the performance OF his duties. Ananias
faid, verse 16: And now why Earliest
| thou? Arise and be baptized and wash away
| Thy sins, calling upon the name of the
Lord" Here We see that the great St.
Paul had repented believed In Jesus
Christ, aud yet his sins were not washed
away. What else was necessary! Ananias
tolls u.s. Arise and be baptized and wash
away your sins
If Baptist preacher were to use the
identical language employed by Auanias
as reason for BAPTISM to- wit. to wash
away the sins" of n candidate for hap
| tlsm he would be kicked out OF TIE Bap-
list church And yet talk about being tho
church Of Jesus Christ, "the faith once
delivered to the saints etc"
Jesus Christ had solemnly declared that
he that belleveth and is baptized shall he
saved This law Is OF universal application,
and st Paul. as great as he was had
to submit to It. that his sins might he
washed away. but Baptists say that it's
all stuh' TO talk about bart'sm washirg
away sins. The church Ia which Anariqs
| belonged was the true church of Christ,
ana he was a duly authorized minister n
mat church, otherwise, OF course. Jesus
Christ would not have sent st. Paul to him
What did he teach st. Paul? He taught
him the necessity OF baptism 10 wash away
ms sins, and consequently Its necessity
| for salvation
II the Baptist church Is she true church
1t must teach the same thing TAUGHT by
Ananias, but they teach an entirely differ
emit, antipodal doctrine, therefore A. can
not he the true church OF Christ. n the
Baptist church teaches the truth. when
1t teaches that baptism does not remit or
wash away sirs ms ST Peter and Ananils
say then ST, Peter and A1anias taught a
lie. II ST. Peter and Ananias and st. Paul
by submitting to baptism teach the truth
When they say It does remit and wash
away sin. leave Il to the Judgment Of the
impartial public to say what the Baptist
sEurch teaches when II says that baptism
ices no such thing. In Peter Iii 2O-2l he
compares baptism to the Ark of Noah ana
that as the ark saved Noah and his family
so baptism saves us, Here Is his language,
speaking or same in Noah's time ''whi n
sometime were disobedient when once the
long suffering Of God waited In the dayr
OF Noah while the ark was a preparing
WHEREIN iew-that Is. eight souls-wera
even baptism doth also now snye Ms :,
NO wonder then that st. Peter told tboso
VINO cried out to know what they must
70 mat they must not only repent but be
Daptlled also for the remission of their
sins. Va 'n'''
Al And yet. after all this Mr.. La,nkin saws.
The conclusion that baptism remIts sin
IS false, and hence dangerous in It's ton
uency' lie calls II an "od horesv," which
II true, makes Jesus Christ. ST peter
Nhanias and st. Paul old heretics, To bor
row an expression which Mr.. Lamkin ex-
pteSstu win such triumphant eXultation I'm |
ms little piece. What do you think Of
rms unprecedented gentleman leaves mo |
10 the alternative OF ignorance or misln- |
.erpretation | don't know very much. its |
lrue' but think the impartial reader VIII |
agree WIN me that MIR Lamkin might |
take hint from the 'lambkln'' wbich |
went to school with Mary, with the me-. |
cent on the school," The first thing he |
might be taught is, that there is no such |
word IN the English language as mis-
soripiuaF which he employs in his piece I
20 SnoW that | am ignorant. or worse a
uVI. oerate mislnterpreter of the Bible
mo Baptist church teaches that il is NOT
necessary for adults to be baptized and
thlnk mat they consider IL a crime 10 han
WE infants In Romans v:lo St Paul saws,
therefore, as by one man sin entered inio
we world and death by sin. and SO death
passed upon all meu for that ali have
sinhed' Here ST. Paul says all are sis.
ners ana death Is punishment OF sin As
lhe punishment Of death falls upop infenfs
as well as adults 1t follows thev IRE In
SIN If not. why are they punished NV
seath? Now. as long rs any one Is In sin
nc can not enter into the Kingdom OF God