Bisbee daily review., 1903-11-01

to cause the action which wrought ,
 the change. Peter taught forgive
 ness not by faith alone but by faith {
 expressing itself in repentance, and
 in baptism into the name of the Fatn- '
 CT and of the Son and of the Holy
 Spirit. Fact must precede testimony
 concerning it, faith in the testimony
 must precede any feeling in cores
 nondence with fact testified, and that
 feeling must precede action in con
 formity to it. Fact. testimony. faith. ceiling and action are therefore bound together by natural and gracious ne cessity which no human power can separate. Here is a change of heart and a change of .lIe or character but no change of state or relation. The change of state or relation is accom- Hlished by babtism which is embraced in Gods law of pardon for the sinner
 and is the initiatory rite into the
 Kingdom of Christ Many believe if hey have experienced a change of
 heart thev have fulfilled their duty
 to God. This idea absolutely ignores Christ's sacrificial death as a ransol.l | for the sons and daughters of Adam. Baptism. the bath of regeneration. r'aces him in a new relation to God.
 The state which he left and the state | 10 which he became dead Is called the
 state of condemnation: the state to
 which he is made alive is the state | of favor and Is called the Kingdom of | Heaven" The old man. that is the 1 man in the sinful state is buried in ! the liquid grave, in the likeness of the burial of Ch ist and arises from the | grave in the likeness of the resurrec-
 ton of Christ. into the life which is | the state of adontion as given by ! Paul in Rom. 6:S 4-6. also in Col. PIP. Luther. Calvin and Wesley as wei as | does the rest of the scholarship of | he world. admit that baptism or the | birth of water is baptism by inner sion Tn this respect there has been scholars for nearly two thousand
 yeas. They all unite in declaring | that the primitive or apostolic bap- tism Is immersion
 It may be asked "Is not sprinkling i form of baD'ism?" This must be an ! swered in the r1gative for sprinkling | is no more a form of baptism than it | 's form of immersion This will no | doubt. prompt another question. Why | 70 SO mary nractice snrinkling or nouring for bantism? They do 90 | claiming that eithe- will answer the same purnose as hantism. This is sinnn'v A matter of opinion.
 1 Baptism or immersion never has ! been questioned and So long as the Bi-
 hle is taken as our guide it never w.,
 he So We accept nothing but that | for which we have an adequate ioun- ! iation. When a man has become di- | vinely changed in heart, in life or ! character and state or relation he has | become a new creature. a child of God. It is then that the spirit bear | eth witness with his spirit that he is I child of God. The Holy Spirit is now poured out and this is as neces- I sary to the spiritual life as the atmos- rhere is to the animal life in the 1 kinPr'~o o e< nature. We now live in i hksSis.nath of his faith. in 'hs he7e ' T xl sjoy md '--ee.Isht of Ht,aesSe. L,~s SUPPER.
 1 This furnishSs O5 with a new argu | nent to live for him who died for us. ! This institution commemorates the | death of our Lord and is a part or
 he worship and edification of the Christian brethren. Acts 2:14. On | the first day of the week when the l Disciples come together to break
 bread Paul preached unto them. | Vets. 20:7. Two things are obvious
 Here. First, that il was an estab- l ished custom for the Disciples to
 meet together upon the first day
 the week. and second, the primary oD- | ect of their comng together was to
 break bread. Jesus said Do this | n memory of me" Faithful to the cripture. we meet together upon first day of the wee. to keep the aa- 7ior's dying request.
 i So dear friends you see why am ! Disciple. My reasons are obvious. l
 ould be nothing else. Among the ;ects or denominations are many who l ,re good and true and I hope to meet I them with rejoicing on the morning of the everlasting day. In their creeds and confessions are many things
 which are sacred to us all.