Show irs 11 illif f I 1 G A I 1 I 1 i SuP portell iy ay 3 1 re aliola 1 I e I 1 ft A k 0 W un i i EDITOR jouino Jo unNO A it if you yet ano space in your paper please publish the hie accompanying tract ind and the all sacr allot which I 1 trust will explain themselves kolt coll T til EAD by S T r in pauls dailig rA IlIg tig tient for the re else iu in I 1 for cor xv 2 23 0 lie says what abt shall hall the trev do are rc baptized forthe for the dead it 1 lite ilia dead rite rise cot lit ill fill wit why y arc they baptized or RO lie version mhd abo meaning ot of this passage Is lor for by many baoy whoa who would gladly know the truth in apply to tile question of p its interpretation let ice labe it be laid sonic teach hat baptism Is to lu such I 1 ft A leose lc Ic ailous land and meritorious that abil if 11 our rl lends have died A without theOr theordo dl nance dance it i our privilege and duty tobe to be baptized for or them aro are several implies to tills this statement 1 that baptism is ij no lie where la in tho the presented as it a vicarious or meritorious net act it li is au an ordinance of the gospel it Is required ot of each individual for tilli prayer abeen ruce fit the lordt lord t Sti supper or any other duty it can have n no 0 significance as A vicarious act bind and has never ineer been coin mandi d us as tuch such 01 1 1 g to rions it Is simply an a ii act clovi 1 1 obedience c cadi tell believer accepts tor for himself the ser scriptures 1 everywhere teach that cuilty lit aa aed the work of redemption for the hie believer no ordinance of tile the gospel nor work of nian man can caa add to that finished work of redemption i which litch i was accomplished tin on calvary fur since by grace ye at aie e saved 11 if by 1 I ace I 1 then it Is i ii namore of worl works s oabe se grace race is no fin mote graec grace besides alio word ord of bod positively says ays that none efthem of them cau call BY baptism or any other work rede redeem ent ill lila s brother nor gi gaic e to god ft a ransom for or him ri r alix 7 on tile the ether hind hand the word of god most positively illinik that 1 christ ba th red aein ed ui u s doai it om alje ell e ell arso of the lw law beidie inside a curse tor for in fig gal ill 13 3 helco iba passage in ia I 1 cor xv 29 19 ca can it not refet refer to any italy duty or doit dott rlue ol of one raws vicarious work for or another as no DO such doctrine doc trino Is ii taught in tile the aivord won ol of goil god but directly the 1 but heresies her esies had bad crept into the church ot of Lor luth alonz other oilier false doctrines na isas this life abat ionic of then denied lite hie doctrine of 0 the resurrection aud and had adopted the old jewish iper elit loii ot of baptizing lor for the dead chryc estoll this account ol of that super lie ile says thit after 4 catechumen i c e we one prepared tor for but noi not actually baptized was dead they bid a ih liln ing mail nian under the bed of alie tl e deceased then coming to tie bed oil of the dead mail they spoke to li libat and asked him whether he would receive b baptism ind and he be majiu no aniber the ot other or replied lir liis his stead and so they baptized the livies tor for the dead 11 tills this old superstition sumo some ol of the Corint corinthia hla n s had bad adopted with the heresy of no 0 in ID the ol of the fifteenth chapter of ha epistle to them s say ay 4 now it if abi chait let be preached that be rose front roni the dead dea dhow how say some amons among you that there Is no resurrection ot th the dead blethen lie then proceeds to prove tile doctrine by an argument and turns their heretical practice loto ioto ID an argar neut a against alost them As it 11 be bad said some ol of these corinthian christians have liivi ndoc ed heresies her esies nelch destroy each other they not only deny hie elie resurrection ot of the dead but have bavo gone to baptizing tor for the bead leid but it if tile the dead rise not at all why are arc thy then baptized tor J you notice rant does not dot say why are WE baptized for tile dead but hytie theo then bi plied ted for or the dead those aliat had fallen into both of these heresies her esies the dental denial tit of the resurrection and baptism for the de dead td it Is deiy significant that this baptism was as not a tiling allun that paul practiced but is as a a superstition of those colin cut but mark you lu in the next lie be constructs c nu all arcement arcu ment on oil WHAT HE alir iu jeopardy every hour why do vi we e r our lives deverr every hour for or tile the gospel 1 it I 1 there Is to be no resurrection no life hereafter raul paul dij stand in ili jeopardy jeo every even hour for or tile gospel lie ile did didjun ue danger ills his life lic for tile llie of the lie truth but lie he did not baptize for or the dead they the la heretical corinthians u whom horn lie he was trying to instruct ibe lu u the better nay ny were alone guilty of the fully folly of baptizing baptising bap slog for or tile the dead 5 1 the I lie fact ahn that t certain heretical doc abul bract lees crept I 1 into ito the early Is no proof that ebone doctrines and practices were ere ri ht indeed tile the epistles were many of them written to correct the false and practices that found an all early lol lodgment ment in the hie churches the following tol lowins lust rations of this are pi plaid al d 1 I 1 the foolish galatia galatians Galat iaus us viere ere be n michell ditched by leall fin as many boli b people have been see ual gal ilia hi 1 4 1 I cat bet that does docs not provo prove abat that legalism legall sil sm works salvation that hat of nuances ee there i 1 but one savior Jeh irah Tili fam aay beside tile mo there s no sailor li Is 13 1311 i P tie the foolish denied the resurrection csur of 0 lie bend lull lait that lid did not lot prove ebel c wi awl no re m 3 the same huld the del table heresy that hut they cutill practice certain toinie of adultery and cation as af wi not 0 sr o us tal named among lite gentiles that line should have till iiii fi fk thero there eife wife or that 0 one 0 could bu be joined to all ail hat bailot lot ones atile the fact that hercules early earll aprano aprati 9 up till lit in the iho church justify the vl lot gods godf of t marr hige today to day by lyuu no means paul says in ili lite lie epistle lct every inan liivi afe not nol wives and entry moman have liar husband I 1 1 I 1 Th creele foolish I 1 professed to be succors of tile alic apostles they thought the apostolic office kofl ii u should continue and they proposed prop oscil obed to continue e the office among themselves hut dut the ephesian Ep heslan christiana denied the predence pretence pre tence and exposed the cheap hyp onay khz the saylor savior in his bis letter to tile ill eab asur ff ait approved dibut the church it hai ad done 11 1 I 1 know thy aoa hs and thy labor and illy patience anti ami lion hov thou canki canil not bear them that are arc evil inc eliou THEM WHICH SAY SAT ARE APOSTLES AND ARY NOT 0 A aall THEM TEU s 5 NED 13 SOT NOT AN TO THE FOR ali THE IE DEAD ROM t 1 GENUIS i TO iteal LA lioy BS hence this tingle single refet euce t te a which every doctrine of pace grace can call not lay lav tile the foundation for or a practice which belittles work and puts pots hire him aside as an all tit adlor and the heresy mutt must fall all before the gospel truth that jesus only saves sates and that lite life is tile only timo time for or salvation IBe bold dow Is the accepted time ac and behold vow v if a the day ottil 11 II 11 Corvi for vi I 1 I 1 the fore foregoing olun is in an evident thrust at the latter day saints in consequence of their belief in ill and practice of tile the doctrine of baptism for tile the dead it also is calculated to mislead arfa the unwary and uninformed upon this sublime principle of the llie gospel of jesus christ it is our purpose C t to 0 ansiger briefly tile the arguments 0 put forth against the subject in ili question in ili ansito to the first paragraph paragraph I 1 would in ili ilic the holy scriptures can it be found that baptism I 1 ii not 1 u I meritorious act it i is k b eminently U je itly a norih from fam hie tit 1 I iridell labit 11 9 an insi libut 1 for or gitlic rot asilis es elds ilis and when a person honestly repents of them slid and resol iss to cease cease bis revil deeds deed sis is not his act meritorious and as bap liin is commanded common ded liy by the saylor savior tile iho individual who complies therewith hi ills act re t is ii us as meritorious as the ad of repentance asis as is evinced in his observance of these laws of god A person who performs fild a r righteous i gri t aou ln act the quality of merit adheres h e e s in proportion to the magnitude of that act peter the apostle statis states tint that baptism is the answer of a good conscience baade ma de so by the luu forgiveness ef ct his siusi bro brought firlit about by bv the observance ser of a meritorious ordinance ordained for that purpose in regard to the assertion that thai tie no word of scripture teaches that thai baptism is vicarious carious ii is ii as absurd a as to state stale that it is not merito meritorious rions it may be direct and vi caritus for the n whole hole plan of salvation is based upon tipon a vicarious principle that of uie tile net acl of our dur savior in ili the atonement which he be affected for tile the sion fion of adam perform performing im y an all act t which adam nor any of his posterity wet beio e able to do for themselves hence tile the savior was the I 1 grent great Vici arian of the world aloin doing that thai for others which they could not do for themselves and which no other peron per on axy tile V l y implied in ill tile the circumstance of our savior as recorded in ili I 1 peter 3 18 and 19 for christ also hath hall suffered for sins th ejust for tile the unjust that ile he might bring us its to lo goil god being put tp death in ili the flesh tint quickened by the spirit by which also lie went anil and preached unto tile the spirits iu in prison who vilio were sometime disobedient in ili the llie days of oah nothing can ile bo clearer than that the savior kavior preach edelo tile tho sinners dinners in ili paradise Para ditc or the abode of departed spirits tile the same gospel he pr preached cached to sinners on oil elie earth viz tile 0 goa booti pel of faith repentance and ili baptism baat asin aud and tile the doctrine expounded liy IY ilia to nicodemus that ra 1 man must be born of the water laid and tile before foi e lie he could cool enter the king kingdom 11 of heaven makes it necessary that all those ilio w ho have died whether they lived on the earth in ili 1 a I gop gosp islo dispensation pensa tion or not in ho did I 1 not lot or could not be baptized according to that thai immutable law must avail themselves of that ordinance by proxy which th the doctrine of baptism for the lead dead effectuates furth furthermore a finore in I 1 peter 4 5 anti and 6 speaking 0 of the requirements of the gospel m cro ih at t they would have to flacco account cat to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead for for 0 chis cause was the gospel preached also to them that are arc dead that they might be judged jud ged according to men in ili the flesh ilesa but live according 5 to god in the 9 spirita spirit p irit 1 and of what avail could that preaching in 1 be if the dead or departed spirits could not or did not obtain a 1 I remission of their r s sins in s which alone is effected by the observance of the ordinance of baptism but the dead being a deprived of their and the fact that baptism belongs to this probation Alt must necessarily be performed for them by proxy in order that they way may bo be judged fudged elie sam in lite husli taken iu in connection with the saying of jesus apostles that whose evers siu they remit they are remitted unto them this doctrine plausible and has a general ap applina tion lion both to che liviu living find and the dead the fact is well known tit that at wheat baptism is performed by the servants of god he acts abet in the it name of the father son and holy ghost performs a vicarious act acting 0 instead at of the father son ami 1101 holy ghost Is it any wore more inconsistent that one person be baptized for or instead ste all of another than that the performer of the act do it instead of the others named certainly not this doctrine being understood b by y the apostles tile the apostle paul met tit alic c absurd doctrine of the V viz iz of no resura resurrection which it appears icara was as entertained by some cathe corinthian members tit that at it if til the dearl dead riss not nt at all why were they bap sized kiy cd for the llie dead it is 13 not presumable that paul would resort to the illogical method of usina using for nn nil argument a heretical liere doctrine 0 to prove 1110 of one that was nas orthodox in ili paragraph 2 is nil an exhibition of the titter foolishness of the system that mr wishard champions that thai christ finished his ais atonement is certain and is admitted but tho the other oilier Dropo of this paragraph are arc so futile pud void of common sense viewed jn ill tile light 0 of f reason 11 that tile the only deply I 1 that ll 11 at can call be made to them is that if I 1 alic J ic i reve reverend rind gentleman expects a talva balva lion complying 0 with willi tle llie pre swathed scathed conditions s co contained uta ined in ili tile holy seri atu rei aas ais hit h discards llie elie efficacy of whereas it 1 i said that lie that thai and is baptized ishall b tie e d tile negative degati e of winch it ouli would be 1 damnation I a J uil lation h he C I 1 will rill find hilt disappointed in ill ilis his cc c c nod and our chance of kaha tion lion is much better than ill hr since we believe iu ili works as well is as having faith because faith Is without w works is dead para paragraph 0 raph 3 refers to I 1 cor 15 and 29 and lees does refer to tile the duty or act of vicarious carious i work for another and is supported by holy writ in ili the passages already quoted und and th tima tiou of this doctrine in ili counci i tiou liou with its purport at once so suggests ests its I 1 incumbency upon all those tho c converted to the truths of the boly Script scriptures which contain ample proofs of its 0 genuineness I 1 paragraph I 1 ara graph I 1 of heresies her esies that had crept into the church and ass urics that the introduction of baptism for tt the le ki dead c ld was tit OD one e of the heresies her esies I 1 in n connection with alith a denial of the resurrection and quotes from the historian I 1 who gives r ivas an account of the superstition of tile the baptism for the cleado dead etc when it is taken into account that this historian was born in the year tear and died in tho the year 3 ear it is quite probable that a superstition of the may have existed exis in his tune time and ami possibly previously from the fact that thai the ordinances ot of tile the gospel 0 hail tilldie undergone b olle oil an entire 0 0 dur the interim it that intervened froni from tile ilaya days of elie the birth of but tile fact remains that tile the existence of tile the superstition r to J fis is orld evident t from tile illustrations nl al eady ml made i that thai that doctrine win was I 1 the lite apostles anti anil tile the aly ly irregularity connected with the is in the ludicrous and erroneous manner lit in which the be rite is a pe performed rf ormed which ja is easily caily accounted for by considering the per hersity of the ages during a the ipos lauy occurred rhe ilic disingenuous use of the pronoun althe they 1 is m biado a t to 0 c cut u a conspicuous i p figure in ili chati alic 1 paragraph m r a g i aph co under ll 11 aitse i consi consideration considerate derAt 1 on tile effort being made to connect those who denied tile the resurrection as |