Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-11-09

l.5 ought to have
done.' All agree
> to this and agree
llRASlOR RUSSEll)l also that I'VE
As. ave believed
many things which We ought not to
have believed and have left unbelieved
many things which we ought to have
believed" said Pastor Russell.
Saner Views Now Held
Christian Disciples still theoretically
say that everybody not immersed in
water is still in sin and bound for
eternal torture. although this is not
the logic of their teachings. Our Bap-
list friends no longer believe that only
those who have been immersed IN wa.
ater constitute the one Church of the
living God whose names are written in
heaven" and that these alone will be
saved. Nevertheless, this is still the
Baptist theory, and for this reason
our Baptist friends still invite only the
Immersed to the Lords Supper. Evi-
IDENTITY the Apostolic teaching Of Bap.
tism got lost. Human speculation and
theories buried it in rubbish. In Ter
tullian's day the Disciple view pre
vailed. that water baptism c,cansed
from sin. At that time 1t was Gus.
tomary to postpone baptism until death
was supposed to be near-that all sins
up to date might be washed away
Thus it was in Constantine's day
Later came st. Augustine with a diff
ferent proposition, which swept everv
thing before it. His claim was more
nearly that of the Baptists. that only
the Church would be saved from eter
nal torture and that baptism is the
door into the Church Therea Ter in
FAINT immersion became popular.
Later our Roman Catholic friends
declared immersion unnecessary-tha
a few drops of water would be qualIy
efcacious as protection against the
fires of eternal torture. Sentiment ran
so strong that It became the custom
to perform a sprinkling of an unborn
cbild-in ufero-if there were any fear
that It would not be born alive.
"John's Baptism" Not For Us
Regulating all the theories of the
Dark Ages. Gods people should return
to the instructions given by the Lord
and the Apostles A careful examina
ton shows not a single reference to in
FAINT baptism in the New Testament
On the contrary, only believers were
instructed to be baptized.
T1-o hop%;e,,oo ouo 10000
Baptism" and Christ's. The first was
for the remission of sins and was ap-
plicable to all Jews. By it such Jews
as had been living in open sin re
nounced the sin. and returned to nar
mony with God, under the Law Cove
nant. Such as thus sincerely returned
to Moses were ready to accept Christ
as the antique and by faith were
transferred from Moses to Christ
from the house of servants to the
house of sons. (Heb. ill. 5. g. These
at Pentecost became really. officially
recognized as the Church of Christ.
Subsequently Gentiles we're invited
to be baptized into membership in the
Body Of Christ. the Church. Johns
Baptism" was not preached to them
because they did not belong to the
holy nation which originally was ''bap
TIED into Moses in the sea and cloud. =
The Gentiles. on the contrary, were
aliens. strangers. to the commonwealth
of Israel They We're not to come into
Christ, through Moses. but to be bap-
TIED directly into Christ.
Gentiles Baptized Into Christ
The true theory of Baptism does not
exclude sanity Methodists, Presby
terians. Congregationaists, Lutherans
Catholics, from the one, true Church
which is the Body of Christ; neither
does it admit to membership in the
true Church all who have been i'm
mersed into water Water immersion
is merely the symbol or picture of the
real immersion. In order to be mem
bers of Christ, members Of the Church
which is the Body Of Christ. we must
be Immersed into Him. but not by wa
ter immersion. Hearken to the Apos
ties statement: So many OF you as
were baptized into Jesus Christ Unto
membership in His Body. the Church,
were Immersed into HIS DEATH" tRo
mans vi, g.,
Our immersion into Christ's death
begins with the conservation of our
wills. our hearts, our all Then and
there God through Christ accepts the
conservation and we are reckoneG,
dead according to the flesh and begot
ten of the Holy Spirit to newness of
life as New Creatures in Christ. When
the last member OF this consecrated
little flock" shah have passed into
death the baptism OF the Church lnrn
Christ's death will be completed and