Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 1952 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CHRISTIAN CHROXICLB 7
Article of the Week
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Volume IX March 5, 1952 Number 40
Published Wednesday of each week except the last week in June
and the last week in December at Abilene, Texas
$2.00 per Annum in Advance $2.50 Outside the United States
Send all communications and articles to Box UM, Abilene, Texas
OLAN L. HICKS ________________________ Editor
Entered as second-class matter October 18, 1944, at the Post Office
at Abilene, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879
MARCH 5, l»Si
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Each week the article adjudged the most
timely will be published on this page
not seen during the last three and almost unbelievable that the peo-
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night, Feb. 21, they spent the difference, and infidelity. Because
On Friday we went with them to in 11115 ^ort report, the Holland
Rotterdam, stood on the docks People are hard to reach with the
and talked with them, said good- gospel. But this condition only
pel and more workers to preach
it to the people of this country.
Certainly we need, and heartily
solicit, your financial support in
behalf of the work here, and
also your continued financial sup-
port that we may reach out fur-
ther with the gospel of Christ
for the lost souls of Holland.
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TKy {fawetAUM (faucctne?
By DON GARDNER
We travel this way but once; hence, it is
imperative that we prepare now for the time
when we shall change worlds. A mistake rela-
tive to the security of our souls is too costly.
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lost.”
Affirm: V. E. Howard
Deny: Julian Pope
No. 4 “The Scriptures teach
that it is impossible for a child of
God to so sin as to be finally
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Deny: V. E. Howard
Affirm; Julian Pope
The Central Baptist Church in
I is sponsoring Mr..
last three months
have been concentrated on Ut-
recht where we i ' , 1
establish a new congregation. Two
persons have been baptized there
this year ( Mr. and Mrs. de Bru-
in). They have many friends in
Utrecht, and we have many con-
tacts among them, some of which
we think, are very promising.
With great joy and anticipation
we look forward to the return of
Bro. Bill Richardson and his fam-
ily to Holland. The people here
loved and respected Bill greatly
and there was a great deal of en-
for according to Peter they are to be done for
the same reason.
— Two blessings are promised: Remission of
sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit Further-
more, we learn from Luke just who was baptiz-
ed. Said he, “they then that gladly received
his word were baptized.” (V. 41) Manifestly
infants cannot receive the word; they are in-
capable of such action. Hence, no infants were
that day baptized by the servants of God.
Summarizing, note:
1. They heard preaching.
2. Believed it
3. Repented of sins.
4. Were baptized.
5. Received forgiveness.
6. Received gift of Spirit
7. No babies baptized.
Now for some questions: Did these people
enjoy the blessings (forgiveness of sins and
the gift of the Spirit) before they obeyed the
commands (repent and be baptized)? If not,
can you?’ Does your conversion fit this pat-
tern?
2. The Samaritans. (Acts 8:4-13) Divine his-
tory tells us that Philip preached Jesus to them.
The Samaritans believed it and were baptized.
Only “men and women” were baptized. Surely
the baptism of babies would be no less important
than that of men and women. It is singular
therefore that Luke omits the mention of the
baptism of babies if indeed they were bap-
tized. We conclude that babies were not among
the number. Observe what happened:
1. They heard Jesus preached.
X They believed it.
3, Were baptized.
Philip was but carrying out the instruc-
tions of Christ. Immediately prior to the Lord’.:
ascension to heaven He commanded, "Go ye In-'
to all the world and preach the gospel to ev-
ery creature. He that believeth and is baptiz-
ed shall be saved; but he that believeth not
shall be damned.” (Mk. .14:15,16)
Christ assures His apostles that if they
will preach His gospel. He will save those wty -
believe it and are baptized. Of course, if a
man doesn’t believe it he is damned already.
Note, Jesus declared, “He . . . shall be saved."
What he? The “he” that believes and is bap-
tized.
How does the conversion of the Samaritans
compare with your religious experience? Is
2. The eunuch believed it
3. Confessed his belief.
4. Philip baptized him.
3. The eunuch then went on
joicing. i /
£ CHUBCMOF CHRIST
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U; Brooklyn 13, N. Y.
WttBgai N. Pfryer and
W. Hawley, Evangelista
ilfnday 18X10 a^n. and 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday 7:30 pjn. ,
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but cannot and will not agree that baptism is
for the same purpose; this in spite of Peter’s
positive assurance on the matter. Surely if one
must repent to receive remission of sins, one •
One question which helps to determine if we must be baptized^ to receive temission of sins
are on the road to heaven is, “Was my conver-
sion genuine?"
. Ever keep in mind that sincerity and con-
scientiousness are no proof of genuine con ver-,
sion. The Jews present in Jerusalem on Pente-
cost were “devout" (Acts 2:5) Even though
they were cautious about offending God they
were unsaved, for of this number Peter names
the murderers of God’s son. Appollos was an
eloquent preacher but he was in religious error;
Priscilla and Aquila, a fine Christian couple,
did him the biggest favor of his life when they
took him aside and “expounded unto him
the way of God more perfectly." (Acts 18:24-
28)
Ask the average man, “How is one genuine-*
ly converted?" and you will receive the ordi-
nary answer, “Give yourself to Jesus; accept
Him as your personal Savior.” Nobody denies
that the sinner must give himself to Jesus and
accept Christ as his Savior. But the answer is
too vague; it leaves a poor, deluded sinner
wondering “how” to accept Jesus. “How” did
you give yourself to Jesus? “How” did you
accept Him as your personal Savior? Was it in '
accord with divine legislation? What evidence
from the Scriptures can you offer that you were
genuinely converted?
Fortunately, there is a way by which we
can be infallibly certain whether we have
been converted. God caused a number of cases
of conversions to be set down in ACTS as in-
spired models for our imitation. In fact, Paul
expressly stated that his own conversion was
“& pattern to them which should hereafter be-
lieve on him ...” (I Tim. 1:15, 16). To measure
our own conversions with these recorded in
Acts is infinitely safer than to compare them
with conversions occuring today, because: First,
the conversions of Acts accured under the
preaching of men directly inspired of God.
Second, after thousands of such conversion#
had taken place, God directed Luke, who pen-
ned Acts, to select out of this number certain
conversions to be a part of divine history for
our models. Hence, the conversions in Acts
have been twice inspected by heaven’s Lord.
The Lord has given us a pattern by which
we are saved; if my life upon scrutiny Is
shown to be out of harmony with this pattern
I have-never been saved. Measure your conver-
sion' with these divine models; if you lack
something, you have never been saved, sin-
cere though you may be. Hence, we turn to
consider some of these models to see “how"
men in the first century under the preaching
of inspired men “gave themselves to Jesus;”
to see “how they accepted Christ as their Sav-
ior.”
Some New Testament Conversions
1. The three thousand on Pentecost. (Read
Acts 2) Briefly here is what happened. Peter
preached Jesus Christ as the crucified, resur-
rected, but glorified son of God. (Keep in mind
that Jesus told Peter that whatever he bound
on earth would be bound in heaven Matt
16:19. Thus the words of Peter must be heard
as words from heaven.) The impassioned plea
of Peter for Christ turned unbelievers into be-
lievers for the multitude cried out, “What
must we do?" Skeptics make no such inquiry of
gospel preachers.
The answer of Peter is significant. He does
not aver that they need do nothing further
since their faith has saved them. Instead his . -------------
answer agrees with the multitude’s idea that ‘ baPtism ia a burial ynd
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the apostle, "Repent and baptized every one
mission of sins and ye shall receive 'the ’gift^f
the Holy Ghost ” *
Two things believers must do: Repent and
be baptized. Repentance is a change of one’s
mind about sin which causes him to do better
(Matt. 21:28,29) Some religionists understand
that repentance to for the remission of
initti, hard workers that they | j 1 I T\ 1
,t‘:n *‘.nu± Howard In Debate
In Shreveport, La.
The debate between Julian
n°w, Pope. Missionary Baptist, and V.
work of the Lord in Belgium, our being conducted 7n Shereveport,
— — - • La., this week, March 3 through
The work of the Lord con- 6’ in an exhibits building on State
tinues to be pressing here in Hol- Fair Grounds. This building will
land. Attendance at our worship seal some 2,000 people.
services has been much better the A large crowd was expected to
1. st two weeks with the passing attend, including many visitors,
of so much sickness. During the The propositions to be discussed
last three months our efforts are:
No. 1 “The Scriptures teach
yours really genuine? It is if you did what
they did; it isn’t if you not follow this God-
given plan.
3. The Eunuch. (Acts 8:26-40) The story
is simple. The treasurer of the country of Eth-
opia was returning from Jerusalem where" he —
had been to worship according to Jewish law.
He was reading Isaiah the prophet when he
was joined by Philip, a preacher directed to
him by God. Beginning from the Scripture
where the eunuch was reading Philip preach-
ed to Him Jesus.
The eunuch as they were riding requested
baptism. Philip replied that only one thing
could hinder his baptism, “lack of believing.”
Said the eunuch, “I believe that Christ is the
son of God.” Whereupon they stopped, both
preacher and sinner wept down into the wa-
ter. (This raises a strong presumption for im-
mersion as baptism which is made a certainty
by Paul’s declaration in Romans 6:3,4 that
baptism is a burial and a resurrection.) The
The-eunuch then went on his way rejoicing.
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1. Philip preached Jesus.
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hi. way re-
ar®~ that baptism to the pentitent be-
liever is essential to his salva-
tion from past and alien sins.”
Affirm: V. E. Howard
Deny: Julian Pope
No. 2 “The Scriptures teach
that salvation comes at the point
of faith without further acts of
obedience.”
Affirm: Julian Pope
Deny: V. E. Howard
ita. 3 “The Scriptures teach
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thusiasm after" they learned he God can so sin as to be finally
was to return. ”
It is needless to say that all of
our time is filled to capacity in
the work here. Worship services
of the Church, Bible classes, new
and old contacts, and necessary
visits among the members of the lost-’
church, take every waking hour.
Our hearts would thrill at the
knowledge that two or three more
workers were coming to Holland Shreveport „ ___
to help in the work, and we feel Pope and V. E. Howard speaks
=~-with—the—endorsement—of—the
Portland Avenue church of Christ “ °e ’
IB Shfev^port For more thm S? Cte?»t f°r
eight years Brother Howard has
conducted a radio broadcast each
Sunday, 8:15-8:46 a.m., over the
50.060 watt station in Shreveport,
KWKH. Mr. Pope conducted a
program over the same station
two cr three years.
Holland Worker Sees Timmermans
Off On Trip To United States
By GARY B. ADAMS sure that with this much added
As this is being written, the helP« the Lord’8 work wiuld be
S. F. Timmermans are some four 8reatly enhanced.
days at sea on their return voyage Brethren, we have no desire to
to America. As the SS Ryndam P®1*11 a11 untrue picture of the
makes its way through the At- Holland work. We are interested
lantic waters, it brings the Tim- 111 our brethren knowing that we
mermans closer and closer to have a HARD work here. In such
their loved ones whom they have a,J)eaut^“1 , hUi®, e?1un.trZ’ w
- half years. Last Thursday Ple can be 80 steeped in error, in-
night here in Haarlem, 'Holland' 01 facts too numerous to mention
On Friday we went with them to in this short report, the Holland
Rotterdam, stood on the docks people are hard to reach with the
and talked with them, said good- gospel. But this condition only
bye to them, and watched them go emphasizes the need for the gos-
a board the ship.
Our prayers were with them as
they left; we continue to pray
that God may guide them and
bring them safely home to you.
They bring you greetings from
Belgium — and they bring you
greetings from the Paynes and
Adams in Holland. We hope that
you will receive them as the
faithful, hard workers that they
are;
ly to the things they may have
tp tell you; that you will lend
them any support or encourage-
ment that you can; and finally,
that you will send them back to
us, four months from i , ailu ».
of new courage and zeal for the E. Howard, church of Christ, is
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small neighboring country.
The work of the Lord con
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