The Yale expositor., 1919-05-22
Fact versus Fiction.


ing lines;
"a little learning is a dangerous thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian
spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicatc
the brain.
And drinking largely sobers us
again"
Silence is golden but sometimes il
is sinful When the faith of the over
whelming majority of Christians is
attacked Fidei Defensor must arise.
The valuable space in the Exposition
does not permit of a full reply. We
simply present a few facts. The arti-
Gle of last week tells us that pour.
ing and sprinkling are not of God but
of the church. That is an unwarrant-
able assumption.
Ezekiel prophccying the blessings
of Christ's Kingdom said: Then will
| sprinkle clean water upon you, and
we shall be clean, from all your filth
ness, and from all your idols, will |
cleanse you. A new heart also will
give you, and a new spirit will | put
within you. Ezekiel, 36-25-26 Any
concordance will reveal how many
times sprinkling is mentioned in
Scripture. Peter said on the day Of
Pentecost: "The promise is unto you
and to your children. Acts, 2-39.
The families of Lydia, Crispus, Steph-
anus and Cornelius were baptized.
Prove that there were no children in
those households and | will prove
that Saint Patrick was George Wash
ington. Children were members of
the apostolic church, Matt, 1914.
John /. The claim that infants do not
understand is worthless. Jesus did
not bless them because they under
stood, it was a needed blessing.
Adults do not understand the mys-
terry of regeneration. If one cannot
see that circumcision is continued in
the rite of christian baptism it is
simply because he sees only what his
eyes have means of seeing.
Now as to immersion. Tentullian,
the inventor of the immersion theory
and baptismal regeneration, was the
first and only ancient writer who op-
posed infant baptism, while Irenaeus
and Origen call ii an apostolic GUS
tom.
DIR. Whitsett, of the Louisville Bap-
fist seminary declared, that up to a
comparatively recent date the Baptist
churches in England practiced sprink-
ling and pouring as the mode of bap-
tism, and Dr. Lotion another eminent
Baptist authority declared that up to
1641 his denomination used pouring
and sprinkling. The very first body
of people who denied baptism to in
fants, were wild fanatical sect called
Anabaptists, who arose i'll Germany
in 1922. Here the communion of the
church was first served on the ground
OF baptism. This accounts for the
fighting instincts of certain INNER
sionists. Let there be light History
brings the truth to light,
a full account of the adoption of
immersion by the Baptsts of England
in 1641 and their discontinuance OF
infant baptism is to be found in the
new Schaff- Herzog Encyclopedia. His
tory shows that those who sprinkle
are the real scriptural, historical Bap-
lists, There are more facts where
these came from which can be had
for the asking
We invite anyone to prove that the
disciples observed the communion
the first day of each week or that the
ordinance was observed that way for
the first 700 years. No set time was
given and no example can be found.
1t is purely a human invention. l
Cor, 11-26. If anybody is guilty OF
misrepresenting the truth it is the
Abtli WIZ PiOlNoHN5 81 iOhhl1 ~ oAiNN
to Gods word as his only guide and
when he writes he is as far from the
truth as the east is from the west.
The Pharisees were blind leaders
of the blind and there are more of
them today than in the time of Jesus.
The world calls for stubborn facts,
it wants no fictitious theories.
Truth crushed to earth will rise
again,
But error injured writhes in pain"
Yours for the truth the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.
ALFRED MARTIN,
Minister First Presbyterian Church.