| Show TE E DIT DI T 0 rj A L Q 16 THE TEE LABOR ING IN VAIN h 1 8 tiie hie tite hin churchman chur d m an an 1 I christ christian an paper papers con eon considers siders sidera iti it ha a in inico falvo of adult baptis mand against 0 infant sprinkling under the tho name namo of arap t cism by the following wing j first because by t first or I 1 natural nath ral birti sinful parents ja i natural natu tarita tanita fa nita rita inherit a infect ci by ain sin i romaus romans v 12 12 il 11 3 because battiata baptism aia AtA is Gods instrument ment for conveying to all the second or hew new birthon bir of water and of the spirit jonn john mem mew were re born into the before they could know the evilee from front him bimbo ibo iso its iti seems reasonable and in accordance with the loving grace of god that they should be brought ioto the second adam adato before they can know the good good they receive from lim him be caule caubu christ tells us he co considers eon con sidera little children more fit for his bis kingdom thim than grown people he baya says suffer buffer sunner little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of puch such is the kingdom of god st marckx 14 because christ by his acts shows ua us that little children although they call cau neither believe dor nor understand kare tare yet capable of receiving a blessing his disciples like jike those who would now keep the children from a chri tian baptism ignorantly thought they were too young and therefore incapable of receiving bleh blet blessing but christ was much displeased at this and having commanded tho the children to le be brought unto him took them up in hll hil arins arms put buthis his hands handa upon them aud bles bies blessed ed them can call we be believe liwo that his hia b essing of them was only HU empty form conveying nothing because under the old covenant parents vere lere viere vero commanded by god to have their children made members of his church at e ight eight days old derx gecels sla sia and christ cannot have meant his new now covenant to have less lesa of blessing for hib hia children than thau his hia old this doubtless is the reason reagon he did not in bo many words bay eay to his apostles baptize infanta infants these apostles themselves had all been made members of gods church when they were infants because on the first day of the christian Ch churek church urcla and in the first christian fc ermon bt st peter after ex hoiting the people to be baptized bays says tee ree irhe the promise of the holy you and your children acts ams AUs ii 39 because the prophet isaiah speaking of christ says he ho his flock like a shep herd He shall bhail gather the lambs jamba with carry theet irl iri iu his bosom and aud christ himself specially xi hargea his apostles in the words feed fred my jamus lamus s if infants are nod not to be made members of his fiock floch that i his visible church churchlow how can christ have any lamba lambs because in the history of the first thirty years of the church we have several instances of whole households being baptized acts evl 15 33 1 corinthians i 16 Is it likely that in all these fa families milieA there was not a single infant or young child because for fifteen centuries the christian church universally yer ver sally baily received infants to her fold by baptism amP ah A h the above long string of without application to tag te a s inject form the substance of all that the tho churchman and the theologians why are in wilh with with wilh its sentiments ca can u arh bring 0 ta hi favor of infant baptism look at them theta ono one by one n fint infants inherit a nature infected by yin pin sin this thia is what is generally deno denominated original sins sin or the tho descent of sin eln to the nice rice through tho transgression of the first parents parent but the scripture sayi bays atas As in adam all die even so in christ shall al nit all I 1 be made alive I 1 cor xv 22 therefore redemption from original sin comes without eith any elport of the children of men all die in adam without any act of their own even so all will he be made alive again without any act of their own so aa as death p passes asses upon the evil and the good t through brough the fall both the just and it the he unjust will be resurrected from t the he dead through h the atonement baptism the therefore has bas nothing to do with inherited sin second baptism is tho inspru ment of the new now birth of water and ato nob not so baptism is only the birth 0 of f water the birth of the spirit is ill lil addition to it jesus set bet the example he wa wab was s first baptized zid in the river jordan then the holy ghost defended upon him here wa was the pattern if infancy waa was wa aa proper time lime for baptism why mas was was not jesus baptized when a child nat bat the cala caia can only come to repe repentant believers jesus jeub sent his disciples to teach ail all nations and said he that belev eth and is 19 baptized billit shall shail ll 11 beiO be beho aved 4 in all ali the acts of the apostles belief in christ and repentance of or eln ein were made essential precede to baptism therefore infants who cannot believe ilor no pent repent lb t hould guld not neit b be baptized aga again 71 u baptism is exp eap expressly declared in the scriptures to be for the re remission i n of fina bins hinsa th that a t is la the actual 1 sins which the be believer 1 i ever repents of infants infanti not dot being calabo of committing actual sins have none to be remitted and therefore ought not to be baptized the third reanon reason son ron has hag been answered with the dist first fourth little children are more fit for christs kingdom than grown people just so and hence bence they nave have p no 0 need to be baptized liko g grown ro wn persons of such euch is the file K kingdom of heaven they are pure in christ and fit subjects for the heave heavenly illy kingdom without any such ordinance or formula fifth little children although they can neither believe nor understand are yet capable of receiving a blessing exactly and therefore christ took them ili in his aims and blessed them and here again is a pattern jesus did not nob baptize them far the reasons we have bermed and ills his blessing was not an empty form 21 but an ordinance for the benefit of children not old enough to be accountable and therefore too young to be baptized sixth sixt under the old covenant children were made members of the church at eight days od old no such thing is mentioned in the text quoted tt it relates to cincu circumcision mcl mci i I 1 I 1 the physical mar mark k of the lineal descendants of abraham it has nothing to do with baptism nor admission to Chil chii christs church if all che the of his church by circumcisions circumcision why were they ibey baptized in maturity aud nud and why were the circumcised jews who joined the church ail all required to be baptized in order to gain admission Seven seventh tb on the first day of the christian church and in the first christian sermons sermon bermon the tho promise of the holy ghost was to the people and their child children reri the day of per pentecost licot was not the first day of the christian church else all that were baptized by the tho apostles pre were baptized in vain and if the first christian sermon was theu then preached wha 9 the ber claer sermon bermon on the mount bug nug But the promise to the children or descendants of the multitude addressed did not impi the baptism pr infants for RK it was predicated u upon on e aswell as well weil as bariti baliti baptism sm repent and hud b be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the holy ghost ac the promise was to those who would repent and be baptized and therefore did not bo apply to children too young to hin fein and repent eighth he shall gather the lambs with his hta arm ae the lambs lambb of the flock referred to are aro treated as lambi lambs and not as the older sheep as shown alread already y in christs blessing of the children baptism is not cot got even hinted atin at in the text quoted by the churchman ninth whole households were baptized and ther therefore eforo there must have inave h ave been some C clauren among them all the apostles were first rc required aired to believe and repent tha therefore ere fore if any children were among the number they must have been old enough to comply with the conditions and consequently ly infant baptism receives no support from thia thid fact we have baptized whole households in several instances in which there were no infants tenth for fifteen centuries the christian church universally received infants to her fold by baptism indeed which is the christian church uni has baa existed for fifteen centuries the roman catholic church if that is meant which is the only church that call can presume to claim such an age nas has also maintained the doctrines of image imago worship the adoration of the virgin auricular confession priestly absolution thib the supremacy of the tope pope etc etc for these dong long ion lon centuries and nd tb therefore e afore if this is an un argument in favor of infant baptism it also supports the tho other dogmas which protestant christians reject with loathing the fact is baptism is a bolm relic of apostate christianity which modern sects have iota lota ined while repudiating other error errors no more palpable than that jt it is a perversion of the simple simpie ord ordinance luMice taught by jesus and hla hia apostles as the vehicle through which h that remission of sins bills which comess by tb the 46 of christs blood Js CoMee conveyed yie to the rape repentant bel bei believer lovei in the im eki f of biess Bless iab lab the son gon orthe liv in ing 91 god clod the true trae ordin ordinance rice lice can only efficaciously by one elving having authority to use the name dame of the father aud gua andoe of the son bon and of the holy ghost and therefore the sprinkling of children in the name of the holy trinity 3 by those who have bave had bad no divine communication directly or indirectly is rank blas bias phemy and in direct contradiction to the expressed commandments of the almighty and the editors editor of the C with all who uphold affe heresy that paper has hab vainly tried to sustain have need to repent of this sin and forsake their other errors that by true baptism they may receive remission thereof and peradventure obtain salvation in the kingdom of god the WORM TURNING tim THE cry dry of the chinese must go which vas th e key bey note of the kearney agitation in california but which does not catch the pub lic lie ear much in the east has provoked some bome strong language from the mongolian side which is applied as a Count counter ef irritant Y through the colu columns amne of 04 a san ban francisco paper kwang chang ling who is suppo supposed seato to have been heen inspired by the chinese embassy of recent arrival comes out wl with th have more force to support mem them than might be thought on a superficial facial examination he lie says you may drive us out of california but we shall influence your social affairs all the same the goods we now manufacture in san ban francisco will be fabricated in canton and no matter how high you may raise your tariff you will walk in canton shoes and wear canton shirts smoke canton cigars and shoot with canton revolver revolvers for we can make th them em cheaper than you should the outcry raised against chinese labor prey prevail alland ailand and legislation be procured which will close the ports of the country against the pigtailed pig tailed and almond aimond ey eyed ed disciples of confucius it is not unlikely that the trades learned in the united states by the imitative mongolians Mongo lians would be started in the great cities of the flowery kingdom when cheap labor jabor bor would effectually underbid american manufactures and per haps drive some of them from the market ff of the world tills this chinese champion further saye 1 baring buring daring during your civil war a single confederate cruiser chose whose operations in chinese waters were zealously aided by the he british consuls s bho ah huo alarmingly magni magnified fled flea by t the h e report of the british merchants in oui our ports entirely swept your commerce from flom the pacific ocean this thia fact taught us two things first the E your rivals in trade and would gladly ruin you second they are ready to sell war ships arms and ammunition to your enemies enem fea iea at 06 the present time they have a number of fine ironclads iron which being our friends friend they will be glad to sell to us and if needs be show us how to handle the day that you become so weak and faithless as to give way to your ignorant classes and permit the torch and the thu dagger to dr iveus from your shores that day will wilt see every resource of the ta tsing empire put forth to punish you your commerce will be swept from the pacific perhaps forever it may even be seriously crippled on the atlantic and you may then learn when too late that china though old and apathetic is b by no means dead or powerless the danger of the arming of asiatic hordes with the weapons of civilization were pointed but ut at the lie berlin bilu congress we haa hao have ve already noted in these columns the manufacture in china of df vessels and tind engines and fortifications after atter the most approved models of civilized powers and the importation of krupp and unit armstrong shown that tho people iwho aho vho are supposed to be bd in the last stages of national existence are on the contrary alive and vigorous and adopting the tho weapons and hud methods of modern warfare and arid it must bo be remembered that in the times of their easy subjugation by england france they had to interpose between the invaders und and victory more than the old time timo jinks junks and nire fire locks and stinkpots stink pots and wid I 1 barb barbarian arlah ariah implements of attack iohd and defence A conflict with the chinese empire now would be a vastly diffen differ i ent affair allair and it would be perhaps a wise thing for our legislators to pause and reflect upon the dosal possibilities bili ties of the future before adopt ing ingaby any auy rigorous and forcible measures for the banishment of ihfe chinese to answer the clamor of demagogues and tle the Vu unreasoning reasoning demands deba deta finds of race antipathies antipa thies the chinese question is one that needs calm em consideration and wise who statesmanship and anything that would tend to destroy tho the harmo harmony ny which exists between the two governments vern ments is certainly to be greatly deprecated even a worm will turn when it la Is trod upon and the chinese worm might turn out to have havo a very avery powerful and deadly baing AN EPISTLE FROM A HEBREW on ox the 2nd lust we alluded alluded to the remarks of the new york post dost in in relation to mormons cormons Mor IMor mons supplying hostile indians with admul ammunition altion showed their fallacy and exposed the falsehood and trickery of on one alexander of ogden on whose letter to secretary ec y ae burz the strictures C of the post were predicated below we glye give the letter itself as copied into several eastern journals that P it rpm dle die anay ty ia what d depths ers of fonis falsehood bood hood and extremes of malice such small oma owa creatures tures as bitsi author will descend in vain en deahora de avora to injure those whose stables he la Vs not worthy to clean out the letter ietter is dated ogden utah july sir T the he object of this letter is to give you some bome information relative to the traffic in ammunition which is carried on by the coope co ope dative stores with the indians the co ca cooperative operative tive stores are conducted 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