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TBE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA, BAPTISTS-DEVOTED TO BIBLS RELIGION EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Volume 09. RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY,-NOVEMBER 1, 1893. Number 18. The Biblical Recorder. . , PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. OFFICE 1 US (ap tain) FayettevlHe Street, Raleigh, If. C. TEBMS OF 8CBBCBIPTI0N; Oq oopy, one year. ... $ 8.00 Oooop,iiimoiitha. .............. 1.00 Clubs of ten (copy extra to sender) ... . . ... , , 530.00 , Anonymous communications will 'always " find their way to tne wane Dousec o exceptions. ; In tending lettert of business, It la absolutely nee- sssary that you give your postomoe addreeB In rou. : The date on the label, of your paper Indicates when your subscription expiree, and also serves as receipt ior your money. ' Obituaries, sixty words long, are Inserted free of charge. ' wuen tney exceed tnis lengtn, one cent for eacn wora snoma De paia in aavanoe. . 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TRUSTEES Or WAKB FOREST COLLEOi LOCATED r AT WAKK FOREST, Daniel, H C Dookery, F,A Dunn, O Durham, W Gwaltney, P p Hobgood, J N Holding, J D Huf- nam, u J Hunter, it 11 Aiarsn, w J xucienaon, John MitcbeU, W H Mitchell, K 8 Moore, R R Overby.T H Pritchard, E K Proctor, Jr, J B Richardson, J W P Rogers, G W Sanderlln, J O Scarborough, T E Skinner, J H Tucker, W Q Upchurch, W W Vass. , " . . Amonq other measures that'have received mora thap usual attention from the public recently, is that which propose the levying of a direct tax on the incomes of' the more wealthy classes, i. e. those who have' in comes of $5,000 or more per year. There is, as far as we can see, only one objection to this measure the fact that it is obvious ly Unfavorable to the wealthier class --anci that Is only technical, and, in our opinion, shou'd have little bearing on the question, All legislation must necessarily bo unfavor able to one class or the other, for the simple reason that onr interests are so diverse that that which benefits one will be unfavorable to another; and we are sure that all good citizens will agree tnat u legislation must be unfavorable to any class, that class should be the .wealthier. In -the-flrst place, they are better able to suffer slightly unfavorable laws; but more than this, the fact that the are wealthier is good evidence that past leg islation has generally been in their favor j nd. if' this admitted, we can sed no good reason why they should resist a movement to favor the poorer man, who has been at a disadvantage for half a century. congestion of wealth and to discourage the accumulation of unnecessarily large for tunes. , The fate of the great nations of an tiquity is our warning. The direct tax J M Heck, President; R E Royall, Secretary; C T Bailey, Noah Biggs, O W Blount, John B would be so graduated 'as not to affect the happiness and prosperity of the rich man in. the least, and would be- a glorious boon to the wage-earner and none will say that the sweat of his brow does not make the largest contribution to the millionaire's coffers Whose income can ill afford even moderate taxation. " The other benefits, among them tbe decrease of the tariff, and increase of school funds, are obvious. Now, with these beneficial results guaranteedand the assur ance that it will not be a hardship to the more fortunate classes, we cannot see why the direct income tax should not be speedily incorporated m the national statutes. This has. always been a world of dissatis fied people, and consequently of carpers and critics. i But we believe that seldom in our history has the earth been so populous of this special class as to-day. Journalism, no less than all else that-is exposed to tbe pub lic gaze, is having its share of the sweeping tide of deprecation. In fact, nothing. whether good or bad that , is actively be fore men, has escaped. There is no doubt but that there are certain species of journal; Ism that are a stench in tbe nostrils of ben est people, which are worthy the abuse that has been heaped upon the entire genus. Bat we feel constrained to remark that the printing press, and the enterprise of modern journalism has been, and is to day, the great civilizer of mankind and preserver of the public weal. There are badly conducted aud unworthy papers in the land; there are papers published in the interest of corpora tions that pose as guardians of the -people; there are others 7 that are published for money alone, and there are others utterly devoid of principle or backbone, that cater to every whim of their patrons in order to increase and maintain their eu bscription lists, all of which are a menace to the wel fare of the country. Such as these are un worthy the name of journals, and are both a reproach to the profession and a disgrace to their Subscribers, though they are usually the loudest and the boldest in their declara tions of the '" degeneracy 6f the i press,n and" all other things tnat are dangerous to the existence of frauds and deceptions, v. we admire an editor who is equally above the matrilnA " ttiA nAr-ivivatiAn art1 vVtA nonnlA who maintains his principles,' though his sheet be reduced to the size of a postage stamp. Such as these are the true Journal ists, and should not be included in the dep recation that is applicable only to a small and special class of newspaper harpies. ' Now that the majority has all but de-; monstrated its inability to effect an uncon ditional repeal of the silver Act of 1800, it is probable that a compromise will be agreed upon. In a recent speech, Senator Vance stated that every measure that had ever been incorporated into the statutes, from the Constitution down, was a compromise, fhe statement was a surprise to us, and we still believe that it should be qualified. At the present writine it is very doubtful what the compromise will be, or when it will be en acted, but the last statement given out by ... - the daily press was that the Act of 1690 was to cease operating in eleven months, and meanwhile the silver purchased under the present law, the seigniorage thereon, and the seigniorage now in the Treasury, are to be coined into dollars at the usual ratio. Moreover, all notes under the denomination of ten dollars, except silver certificates, are to be retired and coin and certificates sub stituted therefor. We candidly believe that such a measure would have no other effect, for good or evil, than to remove the doubt and suspense as to what the Senate would do, that has so disturbed the business world. The measure will not increase the currency, because notes are to be retired for the coin and certificates issued. ; Moreover, there is not enough silver in sight to materialiy in crease the per capita. Again," the measure amounts to unconditional repeal in less than one year, wow, if the senators believe in coining bullion into 4 cheap dollars" during that s time, why stop at an i sureiy u cheap dollars" were the cause of the panic, this great0 addition to their number cannot but prolong and aggravate the trouble. The truth is, V cheap dollars," so-oalled, had little to do with the panic ' But we hope and believe that this is only a temporary measure, and if enacted at all, will be re placed .before next October by an enactment bv which silver will be restored to its full aud worthy use as a part of the standard currency of the country. We believe the country may well rejoice : that the Senate has conoluded to cease cavilling and to go to work. ' ' 4 Two daps since, the World's Fair, which has indeed been the crowning glory of this century, and which will be unrivaled for many years in the next, was closed. In a ew more days those magnificent structures which-have excited the admiration of the world, will be destroyed fofever,' and the exhibits which they contained, no less mag nificent and admirable, will be removed'and scattered over the earth. It does seem a pity that this, the grandest display of man's handiwork ever collected, and the greatest testimony of modern times to God's good ness, should be brought to an end, when scarcely 20,000,000 people have beheld them. Bat soch Id the decree; and those who have not been so fortunate as to see the Fair must resign themselves to the inevit able. ' ' They may learn some lessons from it through representation,: but its grandeur and magnificence can never be adequately appreciated by this means. How can words express the beauty and wealth represented by $150,000,000 f No more is it possible than it is to obtain an idea of the Liberal Arts Buildir g, which has a flooring of forty four acres, by a 10x12 inch photograph. We believe, with the editor of the Century. that the equal of this Fair will not be repro duced in the life of any one living to day. The time, the place,- the occasion, and the circumstances, combined most favorably for the success of this colossal undertaking in a manner that will hardly be repeated. Yet the Fair may only be an earnest of what man can do, and two decades may not pass before the present exhibition will be rele gated to the realm of the common-place, as it has overshadowed the almost forgotten Uentennial Fair of 1876. A Divine Canon Applied to the Ordinance of - .Christian Baptism, . PREACHED ON SUNDAY BY. THE LATE REV, A. W. PBICK IN THE LiCBISBDEO' CHURCH Bt-' - FORK THE BURNING OF THE BUILDING. " Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandment, and shall teach men so, he shau be called tbe least m tbe kingdom of neaven. Matt. 5; 19. ; Christ seems to recogniza here that while none of the commandments of God are un important, yet there are some of more im portance than others, t Anything which the innmte uod commands, however non essen tial it appears to finite man .cannot in itself be of non importance. This were to charge infinite Wisdom with foolishness and main tain that the infinitely great Lawgiver trifles with his moral creatures." Butrwnile every; command coming from the great Lawgiver of tire universe is great and important, the Saviour himself recognizes that some com mandments are greater than others, that seme are fraught with more serious conse quences and involve higher obligations than others. He recogn;z?d thii&ct on another occasion when a lawyer, with the view of tempting him, asked him, ' Which is the greatest of the commandments V-i And Je sus replied, - "The first commandment is this : Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one Lord, and thqu shalt love the Lord thy Uod with all thy heart, with all thy mind, with all thy soul, and with all thy strength. And the seeond is like, namely. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There are no com , mandments greater than these ; for upon these hang all the law and the prophets." These two commandments, as the broad, underlying principles and motives of the whole jaw are, of course, or more import ance than any specific precept which may grow out of them. Then Jesus" recognized the same fact that some commandments are more weighty than others when he said to the Pharisees. 44 Ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of : the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone," He did not 6ay that tithing mint and anise and cummin was unimportant or unneces sary. On. the contrary, he intimated that carrying out of the tithe law to the most scrupulous exactness was id the highest de gree important and commendable; yet he plainly stated that obedience, however scru pulous in these ceremonious precepts, could not atone for the neglect of the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, faith. "These thinsrs ought ve to have done, and not to leave the other undone." So that the distinction which he seems to set forth here is that moral precepts are of more impor tance than:" ceremonial prectp's, s though these when divinely commanded are hot to be isnored or rejected. This is not only in accordance with the Supreme Court of Heaven, but la the verdict of universal rea son and common sense. - But Christ in this text shows the estimate which he puts upon the least of the divine commandments. ' . Whosoever , therefore shall break one of these least command ments, and shall teach men so. shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven," Now then the text is a canon or rule, used by Christ himself in reference to the least or less im portant commandments. . I want on this oc casion to apply this divine canon or rule to the commandment to oe oapuzed. in more formal statement : This canon of Christ apA piled to Christian Baptism. " V Whosoever therefore shall weak one or these least commandments shall , be, called least in the kingdom of heaven." Baptism may with propriety come under the head of these jeastcommandments," because a posit itive and ceremonial ordinance and not a moral precept. It is not as important as re pentance and faith, because upon them de pend eternal salvation. And while baptism is to follow repentance and faith in close succession, and while it is intimately asson elated with them occurring in the same sen tence and spoken with the same breath with which the command to believe was spoken, yet from the very nature of the command and the position of the duty, baptism is not 9 great in importance and issues as repent ance and faith are, Tbis much is true that by the common consent of the Christian people, with few exceptions, the ordinance of baptism is relegated to the realm of the least of ii the commandments. There are some, it is true, who make baptism not one oi toe jeast, out one ol the greatest com mandments. By attaching an importance wmcn the scriptures do not attach to it, by erecting it into a saving ordinance and de claring that by it conscious adults and un conscious infants are regenerated and made heirs of eteccal glory, some people make baptism not only one of 'the greatest com mandments but the greatest. Because, if it is a saving ordinance, it is so simple, so easy and so mechanical, that not to embrace it were not only fatal but foolish- " This. however, is not the position and importance that tne scriptures attach to Christian bap tism, nor what the majority of evangelical Christians attach to it. .Compared, then, with repentance and faith and love, the com mand to be baptized is "one of the least com mandments " And yet are we to ignore it or reject.lt with impunity f f Nay J the Master says, "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, the same shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. Mark you, he does not say, Whosoever therefore shall break: one of the greatest com mau4ments shall be' called the least in tbe kingdom of heaven i but whosoever shall break one of these least commandments, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven." The comparison is between break ing the "least of these commandments" and being "least in the kingdom of heaven." This may mean that they shall be least in the estimation of the kingdom of heaven but it more probably means that they shall ba least in Christ's kingdom in point of dignity and knowledge.-; . ' Applying the text to the question of Chris tian baptism, the question naturally arises, how may we break the command to be bap tizedf 1. I answer, we break the com mar d to be baptized by changing the form or mode of baptism This is something in which you cannot separate mode from substance ; in deed, the mode Is the thing itself ; so that if t. A. .'. "I . 1 . 1 . . 1 you cnange me moae you aesiroy ine ining. What led Prof. Moses Stuart to write his work on baptism a work in which he can didly admits and perse veringlv proves that the meaning of the Greek work baplizo means immerse and nothing else, : was a proposition which' some one . put to : him. Tbe proposition was this "Baptism is noth ing but a rite ; a rite is nothing but a form ; therefore, if we receive the baptism, we must submit to the rite,' and if we submit to the rite, we must observe the form." . And the burden of ' Profl. Stuart's book was to. prove that, notwithstanding that immersion was the original mode of baptism yet 'we are justified in adopting some other mode. Prof. Stuart was Professor in Andover Sem inary and was not a Baptist, but was a ripe and candid scholar, and he plainly admitted that immersion is the meaning of the word which is translated baptize. He says: ,4The mode of baptism by immers'on, the oriental (Eastern) church has always continued to pursue even down to the present day. The members of this church are accustomed to call the members of the Western churches 4 sprinkled christians ; by way of ridicule and contempt.. They maintain that baptizo means nothing but immerse, and that bap tism by sprinkling is as great a solecism as immersion by sprinkling." And so it is. To say baptism by sprinkling is as much a coairauictioo. la terms as 10 say - uumermou by sprinkling. '1 But Prof. Stuart closes his discussion with this concession : jt i 'But enough ; it is a thing made out viz , the an cient practice of immersion." , L Now in this discussion, it would not be wise for me to quote Baptist scholars, for their prejudices are naturally in favor of the 'Baptist position ; but Pedobaptist schol ars are naturally supposed to be prejudiced, on the other side, so that if they give testi mony in favor of the Baptist position, it must be out of their love for and loyalty to. truth, " Hence I have taken some pains to collate some of . the concessions which emi nent scholars, not Baotists. have made con cerning the mode of baptism.- AH of these authorities I have not personally consulted; but have taken their declarations from pub lished works which have long been before the world and whose faithfulness has never been called into question. ; ' ; : v Let us notice some of the Greek Lexicons. In order that these children may understand what I say, I will say that a 44 Greek Lexi con "is a dictionary of the Greek language, which is compiled by eminent scholars, who find the meaning of the Greek words from the usage of the language as seen in Greek literature. Of course you need not go to an English dictionary to find dut the meaning Of the word baptize, for the English diction aries give the meanings which have attached to tbe English word ; but we must go to a Greek dictionary and find out what the word meant when Christ and the Apostles used it; for whatever it meant then, it means now. Let us go to some of tbe standard Ureek dictionaries, Liddell & Scott 5 44 Baptizo, to dip repeatedly.'1 Donegan ! 44 To "dip re peatedly into a liquid." Robinson, Lexicon of the New Testament Greek, 44To dip, in, it fiinV' tr, Immina : fimltS'a P.ihltk TO a.' tionary i 44 Baptism means immersion." properiy and literally Neander, in his Life of Christ," says : V As John's followers were ea- tirely immersed in the water, so the Mes s'ah would immerse the souls of the believers In the Holy Ghost." Lange says on Matt. 8: 8 4 And were baptized, immersed in the river of Jordan, confessing their tins." Ne ander says in his Church History, page 197,. 44 Baptism was originally administered by iiuuiciBiuu, buu LUitujr ui mo vuuipurifiOQS Ol St. Paul allude to this form of administra tionsJohn Calvin says in his Institutes,. Article on . Baptism : '4Tbe word baptize means immerse, and it is certain that im mersion was the . practice of the primitive church." Dr. Wad, author of the History of Infant Baptism, says: '! Baptism by im--mersion was the practice of the primitive church. This is so plain and so clear that one cannot but pity the weak endeavors cf such Pedobaptists as wouli maintain the negative of it. , It is a great want of pru dence as well as of honesty to refuse to grant, to an adversary what is trde, acd may be proved so." L ' Barnes, a Jfresbytenan commentator, says on Romans 6 : 1 t Buried wiih Chris" in baptiem, that like as Christ rose from tie dead by the glory of the Father, even so should we walk in newness of life." "Ic is altogether probable," says he, cerementing on this passage, ,"that the Apostle in this place had allusion to the custom of b, p ,zir;g by immersion." Dean Stanhopwsays : "The ceremony of immersing the body of the bap tized in water, represents the burial of the dead underground.' 5 William Bui kett says: "The Apostle alludes no "doubt to the an-, cient manner and way of baptizing persons in those hot countries which was by immer sion." Pr. Chalmers i The original mean ing of the word baptism is immersion." Co jijbeare and Howsony Life of Saint Paul "This passage canntt be understood unless it be borne in mind that the primitive bap tism was by immersion." Fairbairn'a Her meneutical Manual,1 " Liddell. and Scott, in their Lexicon, beyond all reasonable doubts give the fair import of the word as used by profane writers and Josephns, when they represent it as signifying to dip utdt-r water., to sink, to bathe or soak." Dean Stanley says, in his work on baptism, ''Baptism was an entire submersion in the deep water." Philip Schafl! says, " The baptism of 4 hrist in the Jordan, and the ijlustrations of bap- Ham in ilia Va TuttimATif 1 .u u)t in f,irn- of immersion as is fretly admitted by the best exeget8. Catholic and Protestant, Ger man and English. :; Bassuet, the distin guished Frerch Catholic, saT& "John's baptism wes by plunging. laTWt we read " not in Scripture that baptism was-other wke administered, and we are able to make it appear by the acts of council and ancient -rituals that for thirteen hundred years bap tism was thus administered throughout tiia church as far as possible. " Dr. A. A. Hidge of Princeton Theological, Seminary, in his Popular Lectures on Theo logical Subjects, -says: "Though the root meaning of baptizo andbapto is to immene in any hquid, have come to mean generally the producing oi the esects lor the sake of. which the liquid is applied, that is, to wash,. or tq tinge, or to dye, no manner in what- form the liquid may be applied to the sub ject operated upon." l would liae to ass Dr. iioasa u the root meaning of the words was to immerse, when. did they come to mean anything else f If they have come to mean anything else, it has been, since Christ issued the command to be baptized. The wisdom of God is most signally displayed in his giving the ; New Testament in a dead language., The mean ing of words in a living Lid gunge are suscep tible of change, in fact do change. Almost any of you can call to your mind English words, which have changed their mearucxm a single generation. : For instance, the word 4rascal" used to simply mean "wave," eo that the expression of Paul, 44 1 am the ser vant of Jesus Christ" might have been, translated "Paul,, the rascal of Jesus Christ.'r But we now attsch a different meaning to the word 44 rascal."; But when a language be comes dead, its words do not and cannot change their meaning, r, They are as un changeable as the fossil remains of extinct species of animals which lie embedded in the strata of the earth's surface. And as soon as the canon of Scripture was compla ted and God had completed his revelation, he locked it up in dead languages, which cannot change, so that tho words of inspira tion, will mean the same when Gabriels trump" Will blow, as they did when they came from the pens'of the inspired writers. What the word meant when the rew Testae ment was written is exactly what it mean? now, and it cannot : 44 have come " to cnau anything else. - ; These are but a few of the many qu sta tions which I might make from eminent Pe dobaptist scholars, giving their testimony t the meaning of the voti. baptizo enl t1 practice of the early church. Why f eminent scholars write one way c:. I tice. another, I shall not attest t? r They .have some plausible, and t (' selves satisfactory reasons for net c log theirpractice totheiracliccv: ' yictions on the subject cf l apt; n. . might be applied the nyi"- cf r 44 If ye know these thir.- 1 ' ye do them." It is ecor ' ' that i honesty ' and cat: concede the truth ci i : they do not follow c-r ; own Maker they I we may depiora t : r we rejoice ia t1 ir c The.concrr.s"'? cf V. ' 4 :
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