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June 30, 1909. BAP1 By Rev. E. You ask me, as your Past of Baptism. Neither the exact mode ol Supper is vital to the vali is it a justifiable foundatioi iint?nr ? > > n rl a o --? ? t~~* 1- ?! - a. 1IVVV.I nim.lt cl it5l Ul V_IiriSl tolic Church. Sweet chari should prevail on both side and charity, I will give you may help you to settle the c As a preface let me say, more spiritual dispensation, any ordinance like Immersio and absolutely impossible i instituted. Acts 15: 10, 11. 1. The word in classic G to dye, to color. New Testament writers w or change the meaning of Christian ideas. They repe the classical word for bapl as an exact modal word, spoken of in the Word wh mersions, but washings, poi The word, properly trans Mark 7:4, is baptize and t we know that the Jews d before eating, nor did the beds. In Luke 11:38 the Phar did not wash, Greek baptiz* clear that the word baptize means to wash. 2. It is also certain that I ling, baptism. In Heb. 6: 2. the variou the Tabernacle and Tempi none of them were perfortm washings and sprinklings. In Heb. 9: 10. these ba] washings" because water, 1 I Then in verses 13, 19. and ; I defined as sprinklings. See I Heb. 10:22. 3- What is the symbol I baptism? Is it, as two isol teach, the burial and resuri Christ? But the Lord's I death of Christ, and the L Should both "sacraments" Heb. 12: 24. 1 i 'et. 1 : And again, how could b; burial with Christ to the d who were baptized before ^|not clearly understand that at all? How meaningless i ^at its first institution. Wha K As we understand the W originally intended to signil fication by the gtace of C I Truth and Holy Spirit. Tit. THE PRESBYTERIA TSM. P. Marvin. :or, for the Scriptural Mode f baptism, nor of the Lord's AU.. ~ C IL. 1: viil^ *ji me orumance, nor 1 for a sect. Baptism was iaii fellowship in the Aposty and brotherly toleration ?s. In the spirit of candor a brief Bible lesson which question for yourself, that in the new, free, and it is highly improbable that n, so difficult in many cases, in some, should have been reek means to dip, to wash, rere often obliged to modify classical words to express atedly changed the form of tism. They did not use it Baptisms are repeatedly ion we Know were not imirings and sprinklings, lated wash and washing, in ?aptizing in the Greek, and id not immerse themselves y immerse their tables or isees marveled that Christ i, before dinner. It is then in the Gospels, sometimes ?aul repeatedly calls sprinks ceremonial cleansings of e are called baptisms, but ed by immersion. All were Dtisms are called "divers >lood and ashes were used. 21, they are more definitely the ceremonies of Leviticus. ic meaning or purpose of ated texts seem to some to ection of the believer with Supper commemorates the orcl's Day his resurrection, represent the same thing? iptism represent death and isciples of John, and those Christ died, since they did he was to die and be buried t would have been to them t then does it signify? ord, Christian baptism was y moral ana spiritual puriiod, and especially by the 3 = 5? 6 j ? kN OF THE SOUTH. Physical washings and spi common in Oriental counti cleansing. When Pilate wa stood instantly, the symbolic original corruption of natur gressions, were ceremonially ^tllflv Pc CT -> Tco ? . ? C. ? J? /? 1 1VJ to the future in Ezek. 36:25, fication of the New Dispensa or sprinkling, and to be sym Sins were to be symbolic Mark 1:4, Acts 22: 16. In Jol about purifying, and this w< showing that the disciples u bolize purification, as did th Levitical Law. John 2:6, 8. The original mode of baj nected with the baptism of 1 8: 15-17, and 19: 1-6. The H Christ at his water baptisn1 Apostles as a refining and promise in Acts 1: 5, and tl 17, 18, 33. The Spirit descended like 1: 33. This descent ot the i ? - e x wxi ui me piuniisc ui a i than that with water, and w Acts vt: 16. Had not the mc costal scene could have t promise. If water baptism was by clear similarity. In many cases as at Pentec it is scarcely possible that d readily immersed. Acts 2:4 An early picture in the Ro Jesus standing in the Jordai on his head. Pictures of b are also found there. All pa for more than a thousand y< Peter's, the Vatican and the as I can learn, represent the a We may then see two abs< 1. It-can not be proved tl Testament times was iinmers 2. It is sure thai: pouring baptism, and so understood XT J 1 - ? ? inow, aear Droiner, i ie? Bible study with you. Tho vince you that sprinkling or j in the name of the Trinity, j of all Christians in the world ought to convince you that in this baptism with watei answering a good conscience Gospel. No one baptized by sprir conscience about the mode, ? and contend either way, sho weightier matters, especially Holy Ghost, and learn to pn deavoring to keep the unity of peace. 9 inklings have always been ies, as symbols of moral shed his hands, all under: meaning of the act. The e, and the guilt of transcleansed in this manner. , Jcr. 4: 14, and references and Isa. 52: 15. The purition was to be like pouring bolized accordingly. :ally remitted by baptism, in 3: 25, 26 a question arose t see pertained to baptism, nderstood baptism to syme "divers baptisms" of the Dtism was repeatedly conthe Holy Ghost. See Acts oly Ghost came down upon 1, and afterward upon the 1 purifying fire. See the le fulfillment in Acts 2:3, a dove upon them. John spirit upon them reminded ar more inportant baptism hich resembled it in mode. >de been similar, the Pente>een no reminder of the immersion, there was no :ost, and night conversions, isciples could have been so i, and 16: 15, 33. man Catacombs, represents n, and John pouring water aptismal fonts for pouring intings of baptismal scenes jars, in the Catacombs, St. t Versailles Gallery, so far ict as sprinkling or pouring, olute Scriptural facts: tat any disciple in the New ed for baptism, and sprinkling were called by the early disciples, ive this simple and brief ugh it may not fully con>ouring water on the person as practiced by nine-tenths I, is valid baptism, it surely true Bible Christians may r instead of in water, be ' and honpstlv nhevinn- fVm J J ...& I..V. ikling need be troubled in ind Christians who fall out >uld turn their attention to ; seek the baptism of the ictice the blessed grace civ of the Spirit in the bond