Texas Christian Advocate (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1908 Page: 3 of 16
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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
September 17, 1908.
It is to De hoped that none of ed to say it was unfounded to baptize keep it out.
the meantime how many men, how
infants was received from Christ and
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farmers have taken advantage of that medicines from which it will be seen that
us receive them in his name, how can liquor traffic:
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CURE
In carrying out these resolutions I
felt called on to move from Texas to
The greatest achievement of faith
is not what it does for us, but what it
does in us.—Rev. J. G. Beauchamp.
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call came to Abraham as it “comes to bership of infants, and admitted them the thing signified?
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rible and preposterous let them do so, said,
but we propose to stick to the Bible those
What It Has Done For Others, It Can
Do For You.
We have testimonials by the hun- ’
dreds showing all stages, kinds and
degrees of piles which have been cured
by Pyramid Pile Cure.
If you could read these unsolicited
letters you would no doubt go to the
nearest drug store and buy a box of
Pyramid Pile Cure at once, price fifty
cents.
We do not ask you to do this. Send
us your mame and address and we will
send you a trial package by mail free.
We know’ what the trial package
will do. In many cases it has cured
piles without further treatment. If it
proves its value to you order more
it be reconciled to keep them out of 1. I will not allow in my house a suggestion and have put it to good use, they contain not a drop of alcohol, pure,
1, ... .... . • -x , t l xu xx c . ,, triple-refined glycerine being used instead,
the visible Church? Besides, if chil- paper carrying in its columns a liquor After the cotton is up sufficiently Dr. Pierce’s great thousand-page illus-
dren were not to be baptized, it would advertisement. ' to be put to a stand, that is done, then trated Common Sense Medical Adviser
have been expressly forbidden. None 2. I won’t live in any community, the geese are turned into the field. WntbtamntreiPaperthnu ro- 31 stamp!
of the Jews had any apprehension of town or city where the liquor traffic The number is goverened by the acre- Address Dr. Pierce as above.
“Through Sicence to God” or rather by hear what Dr. Tillett has to say of scarcely anyone that so much as ad- Oklahoma and become a citizen of a
mistake “Paths That Lead to God,” I these strange and unorthodox views vised the delay of infant’s baptism. State that was “born sober.” I still
said that Dr. Tillett was lending his “That this new method of explaining Irenaeus, who lived in the second cen- nave a deep interest in the moral wel-
influence to higher criticism. Dr. Chap- sacrifice in general and in Abraham’s tury, and was well acquainted with fare of Texas, and rejoice with you
pell thought differently and took me sacrifice of Isaac in particular, re- Polycarp, who was John’s Disciple, in your victory over the satanic wiles
to task. I might introduce other quo- lieves’ certain moral difficulties cannot declares expressly that the Church of the Democratic anti(c)s in your
tations to prove that I was amply jus- be denied, but while relieving one it learned from the Apostles to baptize State. Such men as Dr. Rankin and
tified in what I said, but, as I purpose creates another to those who believe children. Origin, in the third centry, Mr. Ivy may succeed in bringing your
to discuss this point fully in a review in the unity of divine inspirations of affirmed that the custom of baptizing people “out of the wilderness,” but in
letter giving your name and address
and we will send you the trial pack-
age by mail in plain wrapper free.
Address Pyramid Drug Co., 132 Pyra-
mid Bldg., Marshall, Mich.
Sent to Demonstrate the Merits of
Pyramid Pile Cure.
as we have it. In-my first criticism on nearer Nashville than Chicago. But our Savior there appears to have been
modern Bible scholars” are infants; and still nearer the time of
This being the
j received, be-
of his article on “The Conquest of the Scriptures.
good and true men in our day.” This to it by a religious ordinance, Gen. 17,
is his opinion of Old Testament in- Gal. 3:14. Second, that this right of
spiration. They were inspired as good infants to Church membership was
the principles of the new method of controversy about it? Some bring it they are saved. If this be the case, Sunday-school and League are more .
Old Testament interpretation explain- to these two ideas: First, that God then why refuse them the sign in in- closely associated and sometimes
men are now inspired! This sounds never taken away. '
very like new theology. If the call of case infants must be
Canaan,” I will leave this phase of From what we have learned of Dr. his Apostles. Cyprian, .and a council many families, are being wrecked in
the question for the present to follow Tillett’s opinion of the Old Testament of ministers (held about the year 254), Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Galves-
the discussion of “Abraham’s Sacrifice inspiration we would not think it a no less than sixty-six in number, unan- ton, San Antonio and other places in
That infants are to be received in- our homes and solicit the trade of the them. It is working well and doing pure blood and other diseases of the or-
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to the Church, and, as such, baptized beer and liquor interests for any con- great good. It entails real work on The "Golden Medical Discovery ” has a
is also inferred from the following sideration,” and yet we allow these the district superintendent of course, specific curative effect upon all mucous
passages of Scripture: Gen. 17; Isa. papers that carry liquor ads. in their Why not have something special to be surfaces and hence cures catarrh, no
44:3; Matt. 19:13; Luke 9:47, 48, Mark columns to do the very thing we doing besides sitting in quarterly con- maythavohrrachdtdn°rawhatatrh it
9:14; Acts 2:38, 39; Rom. 11:17, 21; would not allow a drummer of any other ferences? Arkansas seems to be alive is well to cleanse the passages with Dr.
1st Cor. 7:14. Though there are no ex- kind to do. Let’s all quit subscribing and improving every way. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy fluid while using
press examples in the new Testament for such papers. The time has come The Church schools are doing splen- "Pseoyery "asaenonstit itionpiren-
of Christ and his Apostles baptizing to carry the war into Africa, and to did work and flourishing. Temperance ery» cures catarrhal diseases, as of the
infants, yet there is no proof that they adopt the wise policy of the brewers sentiment growing and more intense, stomach, bowels, bladder and other pelvic
were excluded. Jesus Christ actually who would boycott every paper and Among the farming classes is to be organs will be plain to you if you will
blessed little children; and it would magazine in the United States that seen the greatest improvement. And ings of eminent medical authorities en-
be hard to belive that such received is averse to their business if it were they have discovered a novel and pay- dorsing its ingredients and explaining
his blessing, and yet were not to be possible. I have already adopted the ing cotton chopper, to which I call the their curative properties. It is mailed
members of the gospe1 Church. If following resolutions, in reference to attention of our Texas farmers: Geese, LgufaonrN “Sst Ais booklet Eivs 2i the
Christ received then, and would have my individual conduct toward the you know, are fond of grass and the ingredients entering into Dr. Pierce’s
FROM AN OLD TEXAN. all sunmer and the work of the weary the fighter, but ifa scientific man
. x- i • xu A a t e A..c , , . . ,1, had told one of the old fighters that the
An article in the Advocate of August Church, preaching services and all, most vulnerable spot was the region of
God was “subject to the moral con- cause God has instituted it; and since 20, by H. A. Ivy, Secretary Texas Lo- have been conducted by the laymen the stomach, he’d have laughed at him
dition of the recipient,” as the doctor infants must be received, it must be cal Option Association, in which he ad- after varied fashion. Everybody to do for an ignoramus. Dr. Pierce is bringing
says it is, then it is easy to see how either without baptism or with it; vises Christian parents not to sub- -something is the idea. Increased as hor8
Abraham was influenced by “the” light but none must be received without scribe for papers or magazine publish- well as new life and light comes more out of\he pkge ring as well as in it. We
of the day in which he lived and baptism, therefore infants must of ing liquor advertisements in their col- easily and is more extensive through- protect pur h&aHs, throats, feet and lungs,
therefore entirely misunderstood God. necessity be baptized. umns, is certainly very suggestive and cut the membership. but thesvtetobe are utterly indiffer-
Such a call may be “truly divine ” but Hence it is clear, that, under the timely advice. For a number of years Again, the presiding elders are de- and knocks u s^o ut^ e^ you rs t om a c h
it was certainly very unreliable. It Gospel, infants are still continued ex- I have adopted that policy (or princi- voting much more attention—person- sound and strong by^the.jise of~Dqpio?
might seem strange to “the thoughtful actly in the same relabion to God and pie) in reference to literature in my ally—to the unoccupied territory with- ^en^J^ldeoJAl^^
student” that, if oGd called to Abra- his Church, in which they were origin- family, and find that it has worked in their districts; employing local
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nam ne did not can so as to De under ally placed under the former dispen- well. As Mr. Ivy says: We would preachers whenever possible and rais- cures "weak stomach,” indigestion, or
stood. But perhaps this is not a sation. not allow a liquor agent to come into ing the money in the district to pay dyspepsia, torpid liver, bad, thin and im-
ditions of the recipient. To say that the week, nor attend public worship, fess faith and repentance they deny, and outside prayer meetings, and
God called Abraham in this manner for none of these are expressly com- This objection falls with as much having some laymen conduct the serv-
may not seem so miraculous as an manded. That, if infant baptizm had weight upon the institution of cir- ices—the old Wesleyan laypreacher
audible voice out of the heaven would been a human invention, how would it cumcism as infant baptism, since they plan. And putting the collections or-
be, but it is nevertheless divine.” By have been so universal in the first are as capable or are as fit subjects dered by the conference into their
a careful study of the above quotation 300 years, and yet no record left when for the one, as the other. It is genei- hand:, though sometimes this is given
it will be seen that Dr. Tillett applies it was introduced, nor any dispute or ally acknowledged that if infants die to the Epworth League. Also the
the State I have five children, all
married, each with a family being
raised under the baleful influence of
the “open saloon” in Dallas and Fort
of Isaac” in the Nashville Advocate, serious barrier in the way of his ac- imonsly agreed that children might be
under the subject of the “Faith of cepting a method which relieves so baptized as soon as they were born.
Abraham.” But before doing so I wish great a moral difficulty as God’s com- Ambrose, who wrote about 274 years
to quote once more from the Sunday- mand to Abraham to sacrifice his son. from the Apostles, declares that the
school Magazine, to show the imme- This article is already much too long baptism of infants had been the prac- Worth. “The King’s business demands
diate connection in thought between but I ask this question: To what pur- tice of the Apostles themselves, and haste.” For the sake of the souls that
the two. He interpreted the giving up pose is the introduction of these of the Church till that time. The Cath- are in constant danger, keep up the
of his son to God in the light of the strange and heterodoxial views? olic Church everywhere declared, says battle until victory is assured.
merged. The blow which knocked out Corbett
Concentration and conservation of was a revelation to the prize fighters.
„ ________________________From the earliest days of the ring the
forces seem to be the trend and so knock-out blow Was aimed for the jaw®
far is very pleasing in its effects. the temple or the jugular vein. Stomach
One pastor has been gone to Europe punches were thrown in to worry and
from your druggist,
it not? Simply
This is fair, is
write us a
day in which he lived. * * * The high- Once before I asked the question. Is Chrysostom, in the fifth century, that
est and sublimest act of faith, accord- a concerted effort being made to bring infants should be baptized; and Au-
ing to prevalent religious ideas, was the faith of the Church around to the gustin affirmed that he never heard NOT WATERBOUND _
to offer up one’s own child in sacri- new higher critical theology? nor read of any Christian, Catholic Notwithstanding we have not been
fice. Abraham so far shared these pre- Dr. Chappell thought it a very un- or Sectarian, but who always held o-Lon we have been in Arkansas 1 g a o 1 i -
valent misconceptions of God and of kind and unbrotherly insinuation and that infants were to be baptized. They waterb weeks Asb and Aansas whi e, the arme o s e p owing
religious, worship as to think that it perhaps he was correct, but some further believe that there needed no a the time, not being allowea to rest, ? tadacit in varida kina.
was God s will that he should offer up things do look curious, mention in the New Testament ot re- as few 10w and then nave T 1 extraordinary good The
his own son in sacrifice.” This is JNO D. MAJOR. ceiving infants into the Church, as it . hnw Have enioved f 55 : 8 !
.c L. .L. aot. Lor. . x , been taken anyhow, nave enjoyea panic affected the saw mills and manu-
quoted from what the docto cha ae- : _-------- had been once appointed, and never being with our many old time friends so seriously that they are
1 INFANT BAPTISM, repealed. and in several very line meetings not an running yet, but wi Ne’soon.
explain this difficulty. As baptism is a question of much The dictates of nature also, in par- with them. Have never had more free- All departments of Church work are
Here I will now quote from the controversy, I thought I would give ental feelings, the verdict of reason dom and delight in preaching, nor has active ‘ and led by capable workers.
Nashville Advocate: “And still more my views through the columns of the in favor of privileges; the evidence the Lord ever bourn testimony more The Baptists and Methodists are here
perplexing is it that he should say that Advocate. I believe that, as the in-favor of children being sharers of effectively. as in Texas, far in the advance. The
God commanded him to offer up his Abrahamic and the Christian cove- the seals of grace, in common with Another was planned for me for this finer, smaller details are more careful-
own son in sacrifice upon the altar nants are the same, (Gen. 17:7, Heb. their parents, for the space of 4000 week, but being homeward bound, de- 1y regarded and magnified. Conse-
a thing common in other religions, but 8:12,) that as children were admitted years; and especially the language clined The constant preaching and quently the fabric is more evenly wov-
nowhere else in all the Bible repre- under the former, and, that as baptism of prophecy in reference to the chil- altar exercises for six weeks have not en and better looking as well as more
sented as being commanded by God. is now a seal, sign or conformation of dren of the gospel Church, make it tired me much at any time and I am durable and becoming.
How shall the voice that come to this covenant, infants have as great very probable that they were not to out feeling as strong and sound as it The divine life__the spiritual__is be-
Abraham be explained? * * * The call a right to it as the children had a be rejected. So far from confining it the beginning, ing emphasized with new energy in
came to him not ab extra in an audi- right to the seal of circumcision under to adults, it must be remembered that The old tread-wheel horse is always every Church work: “Ye can do noth-
ble voice, it may be, but ab intra the Law. Acts 2:39. Rom. 4:11. there it not a single instance recorded in harmony with the plan and it ing without me” (never could as to
through his consciousness and his con- That, if children are not to be baptized in the New Testament in which the de- agrees with him. that) is the Lord’s word. But, enough,
science, through miner impressions because there is no positive command scendant of Christian parents were 1 find the preachers are trying to TWo more weeks and we expect to be
and feelings, like calls come from God for it, for the same reason woman baptized in adult years, prove what virtue there is in the lay- at home in that beautiful Texas city—
today to good and true men and if so should not come to the Lord’s Supper; That infants are not proper subjects men’s awakening by appointing places Lampasas our home town.
subject to the mental and moral con- we should not keep the first day of for baptism, because they cannot pro- where there is no regular preaching,
ation is a good thing in its place, but I and their jealousy for the moral char- the rejection of infants, which they is licensed, after having tried a rea-
fear among some modern theologians acter of Jehovah and all the moral and must have had, if infants had been sonable length of time to influence the
it is overworked. There is only one spiritual elements of religion cannot rejected. As whole households were voters to put a stop to it.
such command recorded in the Bible be surpassed.” This is a pretty high baptized, it is probable there were 3. I will live in a part of the coun-
and that command is explained in the complement, coming as it does from children among them. From the year try where the people are “sane”
text to be only a test. If the higher so high an authority in the church. 400 to 1150, no society of men in all enough to vote the traffic out, and are
critics want to imagine something hor- We may, well ask what more could be that period of 750 years, ever pretend- strong enough, in moral character, to
“moral difficulty,” and therefore of no
consequence. There is a large number
of Bible scholars in Germany, England
and America,” continues Dr. Tillett,
“who say that sacrifice is of human
and not of divine origin, many of them
affirming that it is distinctly heathen
in its origin. They furthermore af-
firm that human sacrifices were pre-
valent in a large number of the heath-
en religions of Abraham’s day. * * *
But they nevertheless interpret Abra-
ham’s sacrifice of his son in the light
of his surroundings and of his being
in part influenced by heathen ideals.
Hear what Dr. Tillett has to say of
those “Bible scholars” who regard sac-
rifice of human and not of divine
origin,” but the number and charac-
ter of the writers who are adopting
these views entitle them to be heard.
Their scholarship cannot be denied
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