Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-16
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 DRAWING CARD Evangelist Continues to At tract Big Congregations to First Christian Church "Johnnie's' Problems ARE BEING SOLVED
 
IcaIers Would Have to Perform Mi. racl@S. Handle Snakes and Cast Out Devils aud Raise the Dead to Make Good Their Position,

Interest in the revival at the Chris 1;an chs. Ch is increasing daily, ana q large coneoufse of people were there Wednesday evening 10 hear the old farmer explain some difficult prob lens to Johnnie
 Reverend iIaddock gave more time than usual to the question box, giving special attention to one question which some one asked with reference Ito Mark 16:l5-1S. He said that the
 writer of the question had taken the position that the churches and preach CTS did not believe the seventeenth and eighteenth verses; that they ig- nored them when presenting the plan of salvation; and that no preacher could or would attempt to explain them. He then went on to say that he would take pleasure in explaining them when properly interpreted and that It was the man who put the question who did not believe them. He said that at the beginning of every
 dispensation God had permitted cer- tain of his people to work miracles in order that the people might believe the new doctrine and that when the new order of things was fully estab- lished the miracle working was done away with. He read many passages of scripture to substantiate this state- ment. With reference to the verses in question, he said that the Savior was talking to his disciples when he said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover"
 MT. Paddock said that one reason evangelists apparently overlooked the seventeenth and eighteenth verses was because they had no reference to sinners and that it was his business to get people into the kingdom and after that they would be instructed further as to their duties. He said also that at the beginning of the Christian dis pensation certain of Chrit's followers (not all of them) were permitted to perform miracles; to speak with new tongues; to cast out devils; to lay hands on the sick and so on; and that they did do so just as long as it was necessary in order to get the peopl. to believe the new doctrine. Just as a carpenter will build ssaffold around a chimney when he is putting up new building, and when the structure is complete the frame work is removed and it stands out in all it's beauty, firm and stable; just so did the Savior permit these things as long as it was necessary and then i. was done away with and from that time until the present no believer hai ever been able to do the things men- toned in those two verses. He then referred to 1 Cor. 12:28-30 and Cor. l3:8. and said that while there were some people who claimed the power to heal the sick, it would be necessary for them to perform miracles; handle snakes; cast out devils; and rais; the dead in order to prove their postio
 MT. Haddock then allowed the old Farmer to explain number of difficult passages to the young man,
 the first one being about the New
 Testament proper. He said that
 Christ was born under the law,
 lived under the law, died and nailed
 it to the cross and took it away; that the lamb was type of Christ;
 the high priest was a type of Christ; the priest a type of the Christian, and that when Christ went to heaven to sit oa he right
 hand of God he became cur great
 high priest and every Christian be- came his own priest and the priest hood and animal sacrifice was done away with. Johnnie. said he be-
 lieved he understood that, but there were certain passages of scripture that he could not har- monize with the free moral agency;
 for instance, Romans S:2S30. The
 Farmer said that this passage was not addressed to sinners, because he book of Ro~'ans is letter writ