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ikeof:h-ytin0:11winto ■■■'■■■■jl1. ■». ■■■*■ ■ •— .:---—i—U-—-[y- Cynthiaua. Ind., Feb., 25tb, 1880all . EDITOR NEWS: By your permission* 1 wish ug to *tate that• Eider.James preached very ably at ild the Baptist church, at this place, on last Sunday, of and on the text, John. £-5, he said Unt all the us, ) Fathers, Critics and Learned Mon, up to some of { forty years ago, taught th:it “bom of water’’ on | meant baptism; he also gave a few names of mcu who livid that view of the text; as Wesley, Luther, Calvin Ac. But if he gave a single 1m-mersionist, who baptize altogether oa a profession of faith, unless it was Alexander Campbell,I did not get his name. It will be a great accmno-dHtion to us if the Elder will tell us what Or. a- | John Gill, in his Commentary, on John, 8-5, say a. it- i Gill was a Baptist, and I hare been told that the j Elder has Gill’s Commentaries, and as Etilvr iw • James says that Uio denial of the idea that bap-do [ tisra is taught m that text is only about forty )r_ | years old, let as hear from Gilt, He? was borri in its I the year 2897, A. D If be did not teach ;« the jet j Elder'did here, then it is a mistake about the position being only forty years old. I insist that the Elder, as he has the work, copy off Gill’s comment, in full, on that verse, ami let it be published in the Xiws, so we can all know whether ia- James told the truth or not. If Gill takes | James7 position, he will be as good a witness as is ! he could give us. Now Elder, this request, we think reasonable, and if you do not comply we will take it for 'granted that Gill is airalnst you, and that you know It, and that that is the reason you did not refer to him in your sermon. V But I was arnuwd to hear that he gave the whole thing up before he got through, and virtually told us that baptism is not essential to salvation, for he believed a great many were saved without It. That yields the whole point. The whole fight on thatqucstion has beeib 44Ubaptisnif essentia! to salvation. Bro. James says, no* Tit is lie (essential; many are saved without it. SoW, i « j when he Sets us hear from GUI, we can see if he * Lhe and GiU agree. • Forty Years Old?Uncle Joel Hume has been preaching - m this country for over forty years. ■ Elder, you must have been badly off your eggs, when you was iip hero. .Campbell and his lather Joined the; Bap-Cats in 1812; that was more than forty years ago. Alexander Campbell, himself, say*sr. “After the Mahoning osecKuatioa • a p poi nted r. Walter Scott an evangelist, in the year 18^. and when great number* began to be imrnerolnto Cbmc under IdsUiMt^aod new churcbe- began to be erected by Jym and other laborers In the fiiek^ ' did the baptist associations begin to declare u0p+* fellowship with the brethren of tbereformation.’’ w, BrowuV Kn^.clopedia,p. 463.v\TOat-has»as he trc rre airaf-le-ia!ictK?nrailsasan.wfr-‘CilbyristIOU5vtlwpow shy to the renders of the Kkws, : krafeh for:5Wltpwlutid'by.James. Gil! is the man^ ahd the only oncout of*gr**at mxoytother*, 'thsu we vrtiht# bear from*We eunpiy requeMS* thA£;^bis *comment. oh J oh n IX1,5,----------■rs
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Poseyville, Indiana, US
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