The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-01-27
REV. BOEN

Holds an Impressive Service at the Chris.
tian Church.
An impressive service was held al
the Christian church last night. Rev
Boen had previously announced that
the divine ordinance Of baptism
would be admin istered to the consr.
Grated believing candidates. A splen-
did audience greeted the speaker an q
he seemed to feel at his best. He took
for his subject baptism" He read
Matthew z, 2l: Not everyone that
sayeth unto me Lord, Lo. d, shsl en-
ter the Kingdom of he,ven, but he
that doeth the W II Of my Father.
] which is la heaven" His subject was
handled as follows:
| First. Baptiam is a command. Com
mandt by Jesus. Nix. IS, IS 16, and
lso commanded by the Holy Spirit,
Second. 1t is commanded to be
| levers. He here quoted the commits
sion snd read Acts s, l2. He stated
that we could not be mistaken II we
baptized penitent believers Baptism
did not come in the place OF uircum
els on neither can IL take its place
! Circumcision was parental duty.
while baptism is q personal duty
| Only the male children were eireum-
cized; all penitent believers must be
baptized. The male children that
were not cireumcised were cast out;
W II you cast out all the children that
are not baptized2 No None Of them
are cast cut. for OF such is the king
dom OF heaven"
Third, IL is a command and should
be obeyed. 1t is for. or unto a remis-
sion of sins. This is either true or the
holy Spirit has ma e a mistake Acts
22, 10 will show that Paui's sins were
not forgiven before he was baptized
although re had been converted sew
eral days
Fourth The mode This is as
plain a Holy writing can make 1t We
will read Matthew 3, 49, 10; IL requires
water. John 3, 23. II requires much
water. Acts 8, 3s, 49, They 90 to the
water and go down into the water
Romans 9, 3. They ave buried there
fore with him through baptism into
death.
Then to u penitent believer it re-
quires water, much water; they go to
the water, 60 down into the water, are
buried In the water, born of the water
and the spirit, come up out OF the
water and tn n go on their way re-
jo!einR. Tonight you will see this di-
vine command carried cut. The evan
gelist here closed his sermon and the
baptistry was opened and he made
some appropriate remarks. Said, here
we have come TO the water. We have
much water, you will see us as we 90
down into the water, you viii see TIE
candidate buried. torn lcome forth
and You will see them come up out of
the water The water had been prev.
iously warmed and the irst to come
from the dressing room on the left
we're two boys. The evangelist led
them down into the water and bap-
tized them both at the same time. 1t
seemed TO be as easy as baptizing only
one, the next was young man.
Then from the right lady dressed in
snow white, as IL dressed for burial,
came forward and went down into the
water. hands folded across her breast.
Rev. Boen, in a solemn and i'm cressive
voice, said. BY the authority OF our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, / bap-
ize you, my sister, into the name Of
the Father, Son aod Holy Spirit
Then three other ladies, all dressed I'm
white, were baptized One could not
help being impressed with the solem-
nifty OF the occasion. Bro. Boen then
stated that there had been sixteen ad-
oitions 10 the church and others will
he baptized some time In the future.
The meetings will continue all through
next week.