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BIBLICAL RECORDER. (Wednesday, January $ir03. - -f BipUstlclsm mod BaptlstUm 1 In Peace and War; In Sons and Story; j thing is, is to say all that there is' to .Then the Tistist and say, Baplisticism i is, ; and whether rapped i i Each1! other good, andgroiindiy, 1 I. t. lki;lAn.. nn thu It. in ?. tt-O TOlll Ar lint, it Will 'phOHSft 119. OT jrejegt us. vvjtn uiis in view we nave xor x. a. Bimi been watching" its career., Here it" But each" went off the Ticist la to be sin for usL that we mieht1 be f U H made the righteousness of God; in BY RttV. JOS1AH WILLIAMS, IK tt N. P. V more soundly 1 1 Mm."2 Cor, 5:;21..i Baptisticism is a word that divides Zion. One camp hates it; the other camp rolls it fondly, on the nimble tongue. Neither knows whv, nor pauses to question. Alas, we are chosen in this wot Id, even by words; poor critters all, flattering ourselves, with long dismssious of the freedom of our 'wills, we never choose It is even so when the potatoes are passed in my boardinrr-house. They select us.' There are -these who see .in this word a rank heresy, and their thirst for the fires waxes sharp; there are others Who see in it the flowering of Christianity. They see in their eyes, of course, not with them. That is, they have Baptisticism or Baptistism on the brain. Alas, we all have things on the brain, or things have us; and we know nothing aright. It is only a word, and words, sir, are things mere things, the symbols of sounds or the integers of visible coinbina-tlonST-and from the foundation until now, they have never meant more than the seer could see or the hearer cOuld hear. As Dr. Gambrell , says, "I do not mean what I say; I mean what I mean." And why, then, should we let the word put us to battle? Baptisticism or Baptistism is a tech nical term. No one should object to calling a gyascutus a gyaseutus. There is no possible heresy in that. A man may be a heretic, but do not impeach him . with a dictionary not Today, unless you live in South Car olina, or Versailles, Kentucky. You may have some faults you would like to hide in the smoke of the fires that ascend over your brothers doxy, but beware of the dictionary. It has played out. History, Ilyinn-booka and the "Seminary Creed" alone are left. There is no heresy in Baptis- tioism. anil norm in Btrtistim TIipv are new in a way; but tobe new is not to be heresy not exactly. Today. What's in a name? Baptisticism will not wreck the Western Recorder no more than will Dr. Harvey's win someness in Arkansas or Dr. Eaton's talkativeness at large. You cannot kill a paper anyhow. A paper, a goat and cat defy the wreck of mat ter, etc. Nor will it spread the Bap tist Argus abroad. Circulation must be based on sterner stuff, James N., and you have more than your share, too, of that stuff. To be sure the Biblical did get one subscriber by it; but, as I shall prove, he was pre destinated and couldn't help him- self. The word may yet make Doc tor Ruf us Weaver famou3 in the dictionary. But who would object to that? Dictionary fame will never excite any one's envy. The diction ary has played out, we say. In the words of the commencement orator who is speaking for. fame and ex penses, "Ladies and Gentlemen, What is fame?" The word is noth ing. But this is true: If the West ern Recorder, the Baptist Argus. Dr. Weaver and the rest of us will have a care to deeply illustrate Baptisti cism, we will illumine the universe, the Stars will beg light from us, and the ages that shall move in from out the vasty deep of Life will take their reckoning by us, and. we shall rule the world from sea to .sea and deep to dome, ' For the universe is wait ing for a Baptist who is a Baptist perfect, no more and no less as it waited for the sun through the blind and groping aeons ere the starry planets saw each , other by its light, and began singing love songs to one another and high praise to Ilim .that holds them in His hand. ' , - r , t Baptisticism, is a.word. Is.-mind you, , Is, is to exist. , To exist! is all. Ego Sum !' What matters for the rest f , Eternal death is ,the ( infinite punishment, Eternal Life the infinite reward. Baptisticism, is riot to, come,;, it is. -Here; and choosing us pootj critters to suit itself. To say that a has chosen; there it has not. Hark as we call the j toll! 9 ty.f, .ff Baylus Cade; There isn't ah ism . that isn't a species of insanity. Jo siah Williams: Including Baptisti cism? B. 0. Yes, indeed. From J. W. wireless sympathy-to Dr.' Weaver. ' , v J. N. Prestridge: Baptisticism is the logical and etymologically exact name that expresses everything Bap tistic; (Choking sensation in the Mergenthaler. Proof-reader yells for the Brittanica and the throat gargle.) ' - , A Methodist School Teacher to tlie Editor: I think I apprehend your Baptisticism1. (The editor gives the signal of distress, and the fore man appears v!th the shooting-stick and the firs'; and ouly edition of : the ! towel.) . Z. T. Cody: I subscribed for the Biblical Recorder on the strength of its editorial on Baptisticism. (This is the first achievement of the word. Editor.) We needed the word. , (Ev idently it had a mission to Dr. Cody. Editor.) There is not a word that stands for that body of faith and practice which Wo hold. The word was foreordained. (By the same reasoning so was Dr. Cody's . sub scription. Editor.) When once we got a clear vision of the thing and saw it had no name why it just named itself . (But, if that is bo, what will become of Dr. Weaver's budding fame?) Chas. A. G. Thomas: I am against Baptisticism. (Which means that Baptisticism is against him.) T. T. Eaton: I see nothing in it. (Get out of the green light.) Mrs. M. J. B., of Blackwoods: "Baptisticism." What next? 0 for simplicity. All such words as "Baptisticism" are an abomina tion. Some will say, people are much wiser than they used to be. But it is written, "The world by wisdom knew not God." Why confuse the minds of the readers of your inter esting paper with such stuff as "Bap tisticism"? We need no new Isms, but we do need to know more of the wisdom mentioned infJobe 28:12-28. The world :H fuU of lam. Presbyterianism. Methodism, Roman Catholicism and abominable Mor monism. (I like the new spelling of Jobe. Job is highly political. It is also a technical printing term. But I fear some one will lay it to the charge of this good sister that she has severe Anti-ismisticism complicated with Simpliciticism.) More seriously, I understand that , the Western Recorder has resolved to espouse the cause of the word Baptistism, if it cannot devise any other means of defeating the cause of the Baptist Argus' word, Baptis ticism. I propose therefore a battle- hymn tor the coming conflict: A Ticist Bapt. and a Tistist Bapt. Prologue : A Ticist Bapt. met a Tistist Bapt. In Louisville, Kt. In Louisville, Kt. Said the Tistist to the Ticist, Wi th becoming piety ; (His tongue was very apt; and his manner was quite rapt): "What have yon for to say?" The Hymn: . ' ' Said the Ticist td the Tistist, "I am for J. N. P., j Ilia is the greatest paper H , On either side the sea. The other's but a taper" ,.But the Tistist stayed, the Ticist VVith mighty, energy;- t2. The Coupling Link. J 4 v By acting upon what God tola them to do, the Israelites found themselves secure when the moment ped. ' " of; judgment came,1 Their i work in Chorus (after Sophocles) : ; Wood, and going into their houses xx 0 , that night. ,13 to . be commended, . not .ITAI " & utftutf fiwt bbrnVbut as1 'giv ing evidence1 of their faith in the mtif yiuce, uui tts a meana oi satva- "Tisn't ixiltel,"' lTK Cried the' Ticist r ' j ".'Tisn't! ticist Yelled the, Tisist--itJ- Till thtir Ungues They were twist ! And their lungs - Z' Thfey"j were hist, 1 1 ! -nj; j 4nd j their fists ; ,n They, were rapppd ; , 1 But their Ists ' ! Were still Bapt- Oilt !-).fft. a. iujii 4 cause of it all! tibn butas hprbof , that- ohe Isali ready siaVed. 'Showfme thy faith . ;-5ct without thy works, .and rL will rshOw ; i thee my faith by. my, works.,'r-Ja3r ! , 2 : IS. , The man who loves and fears' ! God 5 will obey Him. Where there s faith there are works following.;-' ' nq.i,, jBut faith is the link tliat couples -.. i the dvinar soul to the. savins . blood.. XT T rpt' .Ml ' "XT VJ. tW.t" .l.iL i-'il.'-:' . it reads, and as the battle grow$ it ' wai'd not reckoned of grace, but of will become more appropriate. ' ij ' 1 debt. But to him that worketh 'not. It, is dedicated to DoctflrjRufu but believeth on him that justifieAh Weaver, as" he thinks. Uiat he is ithe. ' the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.' Rom. . 4 : 4, ; 6. . The reason why so many of God's people ate living without assurance, and in dread of the future, is because they are looking to themselves, and r not to the blood. From . the press, the platform, and the pulpit yr is becoming ouite the thing to magnify the life of Christ as a saving ex ample, rather than the atonement by , blood,, Dr, A. 0. Dixon was invited . by a minister's; union- in .one of our : Northern cities to address them on a certain occasion, and when he noti fied them he - would speak ' on' the atonetnerit,they cancelled the engage ment. Dr. Strong, . jn his recent book, "The Re-discovered Christ,", declares that the work of the church is not to teach men how to live rather than sa ve souls. My brethren, there is but one foundation, and that is the blood. That which sets the blood aside is from "the pit. t Glory to God! faith in the blood saves. "And he said unto the wo man, Thy faith hath saved thee; gn in peace." Luke 7: 50. "Thy faith." No place for works, yet how tender and touching was her devotion. No, place for feeling, and yet how deeply she felt. The word "feeling" is men tioned only twice in the Bible, once The Christian's Assurance of . , . Salvation, "" EKV. M. A. JBNKKN8, - Pastor First Ba'pttot Cbnrcb, Dublin, hi!11 I. The Grounds jf or f Assurance May we know that we aJe5 sived? To sensitive souls, the 1 question 6eems immodest'' We areigreatuat forming notions and cutting ;, the, Bible to fit them. r Scoregt.4n our , churches are inactive, , because .they' lack assurance, and 'feel their" own unpreparedne88 to help others. hxiNo'-'-doubt a very , great weakness in; our . ranks is just here,? " , . . There are those lacking assurance, who put their trust in a religion of , works, and are trying fry their good deeds to save, themselves, a thing un warranted in scripture, and utterly incapable. of good results. W But there are many of the'Lord'a children who lack tassurance because' they lack knowledge of . the teachings of the Word oh this subjects For assurance, we must look into, the Book and up' to God ; hot within or about ourselves, 1. Tnn Kfiiinnntinn nf Aao'il;rimo. "Tliat I may know him." Phil.. 3: n -Epb 4: 19, and once in Heb. 4: 15. 10. "And this is life eternal,, that ;but 'n neither instance ojhey refer they might know thee, the onlv true. God, and Jesus Christ whom, thou hast sent."--John 17 f 3. 'J1:,8'v 1 Assurance is founded on Christ.' In His death we have redemption, through the atonement bv blood-, In, His resurrection we have justifica tion. "Who was raised for our justi- How much mere- lecling. 'to the plan of salvation. people depend on Plenty of assurance when ' they feel nappy. I imagine that in one Israel ite's home there was .. anxiety , and dread, and in the one next to it there was joy and gladness; but ohe was safe as the other, because both were behind the blood. Thank God. salva- deliverance from thedoniinionqof;; tion depends on faith in the blood of sin. At. Hmupcniifl nnmiriD'. Ha urill. . vll" pehver His people; from the presence of sin. ..',; 1 It all centers; in thej blood. 'From the earliest need of a 'Saviour from sin, the blood was typified as the only hope. It is seen in Gen. 3 : 21. where The Christian may have assurance for the present, as woll as for the futu re. : "Hath saved thee." "Now are we the sons of God," Saved now, , and, waiting for the glory.. ,7 .. In" an article to follow, we will "speak of the manifestations of assuf- ii i j i. 3 t ,n w th Bu;r'ff V 'ance in the beheverVown heart, as innocent victims: Also in Qehv 4i S ' presented m U, Word of God- ' it is Abel's sacfrifice i of bRbdL that1 5 ' J2VIlL::"J' ' ' meets , Jehovah's approval. iln Exo-- , s , " . : -dus, twelfth chapter, . we ave jthe , ((Thls World is Not an Orphan Asy- sprinkled bloody: we see Jesbs 'dying lum.i on the cross, and His blood; by1 faith, '"y''We ''are living Out these' lives 6f applied .to the believer's hearth the i ' outs too' much apart from (Ood. ,:We seal and surety of his salvation for-r toil on dismally, as if the making or ever.! AH that ; needed concern;, . the ry the irarriiig .of ourj destinies .rested Israelite when the death angel. passed, . wholly with onreelves. I M , pot so. over, was whether 1 he! was behind the ' We 1 are not the lonely, of phaned blood. It was the blood that gave ' creatures wc let ourselves ' suppose him safety. :n -t'm- ! ourselves to' be. m The earth5 irollmlf If the believer would have f assures in on , its way, through) space, does Jpot anco. let him see that he is .behind , go unattended. The , Maker , and ,the blood of the Son 'of God.,, "For ' Controller of it is I with It and around .... 1 1. 1 Ih-nio . .alan. hot h nnM anttaraft tnr . It ft tin llhnn ir ' 1 1 ? knnttra. IIS in- f Said . the , Tistist to. the. Ticist:; Vp sins,; the. just.Jpr Jthe unjus'tf-'that 'finitely mor'eHhbroiighiy than we (f ;"I4am for T. T. E. r - ,, n "a 5, JTe might brirtgit'us totGod, being put'r.'know -hTmhVs. ; He lores usrbette'r His.paper is quite flawless f t i , ; "to death'in thq flesh, put floifikened; tthan wq have ever dared jto. believe . ,And his editorial we by the SpiritCi Pet. 3: ii '"joi: could be possible, William R. Ilunt- Never knew nor saw less" Pet. 3: .18. he hath made him .who knew no sW-JngtbiL'
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