The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-15
THIS ONE HAS LOTS OF SUBJECTS
FOR MEDITATION AND
PRAYER.

ALIAS mere again, want you TO
put me next regarding this Xmas
day, and as I know you to be
learned man, 1 also want informa-
ton as to the true Sabbath, and as
/ am a Methodist I want to push in
the question concerning infant bap-
tism.
We are informed that Pope Greg
DRY first put an embargo on marriage
so far as priests are concerned, and
at the same time, instituted nun
neries.- Now, we find from the read
ing of this clipping that Gregory has
changed the date for Xmas, and now
the question comes, "Who changed
the SABBATH" for we note that
nearly all the Bibles read, Saturday,
or Sabbath 7th." Again we note
early in the morning on the first day
of the week after the Sabbath had
passed came Mary to the tomb.
Every indication is that Saturday is
the true Sabbath. We want to know
who is responsible for the change.
Again as far back as about 1900, we
find the priest baptising infants.
Now it appears very plainly to US
that the Bible teaches us this; do
you believe? Phillip asked that
question. Again baptism appears to
be for the remission of sins We
know that we are even conceived in
sin, but I contend that child is not
eligible to baptism, for he has not
reached the years of accountability.
There is no need for remission 'tOut
Of the mouths Of babes we have per-
feet praise. | am opposed to infant
baptism.
Now I want to know, and will ask
the question. Suppose next Noyem-
Der the President appoints Thanks
giving Day, say, on the 25th, and we
ignore the date, or part Of us do, and
instead we celebrate the 9Th of De-
cember, that would look very bad
even to a man like one of the rest of
us. The President is a great man in
authority, but he is not as great in
comparison with our Creator, as a
cricket or beatle compared with man.
Now some of us may have to change
the date of Thanksgiving on account
of relations of our President to the
Roman Catholic church, but we don't
want to, and we will put up with a
lot before doing so, in fact, I think
by next Thanksgiving the President
will have learned better, and he will
unless he shuts both eyes and closes
each ear.
Now let me mention this, and give
any reader chance to think for him
self. Do you know a single indi-
vidual that yo1 would exchange
places with and risk the chance for
Heaven? I know that many sinners
like myself go to the priest and ask
forgiveness for sins, and know that
there's a pope at Rome. | would
not exchange my place as wicked as
it is with the Pope at Rome, much
less some priest or any one profess
ing to be a Christian, and this is
the truth and the whole truth. Yes,
the Pope and the President, as great
as they are, are not as much in com
parison with supreme being as the
tiniest insect, and the one having the
least instinct.
Hear the conclusion of the whole
matter. Fear God and keep his
commandments, for this is the whole
duty of man" Work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling
1t appears that we are all far from
God Who keeps the Sabbath day
holy? The law of omission is as
great as the law of commission, and
what right have we to change the
date or the day Of anything without
authority? 1t is a question.
Yours truly,
T. MANNING.
P. S. There are many that have