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[*., ljjV T OTICE is hereby given that the under
! ■ signed, as assessor of Jackson county, j
1 H Arkansas, will meet the people of the
p ■erent townships at the following times and
1 jlces, for the purpose Jof listing the Personal
llperty and Per Capita Tax for the ;
Jlr 1902:
krren township, McDougal’s residence, Mon
land Tuesday, June 2, and 8.
Baize township, Grand Glaize, Wednesday
JThursday June 4 and 5.
Si.* ridge township, Auvergne, Friday
!• fcjJ j . .idge township, Weldon, Saturday
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RC3, in ridge township, Tupelo, Monday
v I^ake township, Nance’s Store Tuesday
Vednesday, June 10 and 11.
hwoods township, Martin’s Old Residence,
JB sday and Friday, June 12 and 13.
die township. Burton’s Store, Saturday
j 1-1.
’ the township, Martin’s Schoo 1 House, Mon
kud Tuesday June 16, and 17.
ibbs township, Robin.s^g’jijChapel, Wednes
md Thursday June 18 aiuTTS.
lage township, Barnes’ Mill, Friday
20.
P JpCvson township, Jacksonport, Monday and
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I I h township, Elgin, Wednesday June 25.
I d township, Centerville, Thursday, June 26.
I I d township, Tuckerman, Friday and Sat
1 I y, June 27 and 28.
J ; ass township, Swifon, Monday June 30
I | day and Wednesday, July 1 and 2.
.■•I I Jon township, Court House, Newport, from
I l I ; 7 to August 20.
| ' base bring along your deeds or last tax
| ipts.
u ven under my hand this 6th day of
1902.
J B. F. SIMMONS
Assessor of Jackson County.
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! COMMUNICATION FROM
, REV. MR. RICHARDSON.
Editor of the Independent:—
We have all heard patiently the
Rev. Dr. Cline through the labored
articles he has been giving us—a good
deal of which has been repetition.
He might have saved himself much
writing, as he has missed the whole
point of my sermon which is con
tained in the title of my discourse,
“The Essentiality of the Mode of
Baptism Known Aa Immersion.”
That is his position which he will not
deny, and which he has been covertly
arguing behind the other question,
“Is immersion a correct mode of bap
tism?” This latter question all the
different denominations answer in the
affirmative, and some scholars ac
knowledge as the primitive mode.
Thijs is the position of those Presby
terian authors quoted by him, though
by none of them is the position tak
en that it is the only mode or that it
is essential to salvation. Such is evi
denced by the fact that during their
life time they were or are within the
Presbyterian church, and at the same
time practice according to the custom
of this church the other modes of
baptism, known as sprinkling and
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point it might be well to see the con
clusion of Dr. Cline’s reasoning. If
Calvin and Barnes, Turrentine and
Baxter, Zwingle, Cnyboare and How
son, Ellicott and Light:oot,and a host
of others in the Pr sbyterian and
Episcopal churches, that he has
quoted as sustaining his position in
the first proposition mentioned above
—and this is the purpose of his quot
ing them—and yet they continued to
practice baptism by sprinkling or
pouring, what is the conclusion?
Either that these men were bad men
insincere in their convictions, and
not worthy of anyone’s confidence,
or that Dr. Cline has misunderstood
them. He can take either horn of
the dilemma be chooo-ji for he will be
•pushed out of his position by both.
Now, for Dr. Cline to make these
authorities count anything for him in
his contention, he will have to show
that they held to the “Essentiality
of the mode of baptism known as im
mersion, as does he, and that they
never baptized in any other way than
by immersion.
I have not the time, nor have you
the space, for me to reply in detail to
all the particular authorities he has
quoted. However I will give one or
two examples of how Dr. Cline has
quoted his authorities.
1. Dr. Chalmers (Rom. 6:3) Dr.
Cline quotes “The original meaning
of the word is immersion etc.” Dr.
Chalmers himself says on Rom. 6:3,
“The original meaning of the word is
immersion, though we regard it as a
point of indifference, whether the or
dinance be performed in this way or
uy spriuKiiiig.
2. Albert Barnes, (Rom. 6:3). Dr.
Cline quotes, “It is altogether prob
able that the apostle had allusion to
the custom of baptizing by immer
sion.”
Barnes in Commen. Rom. 6:3 says
“It is altogether probable that the
apostle had allusion to the custom of
baptizing by immersion. This indeed
cannot be proved so as to be liable to
no objection; but I presume that this
is the idea which would strike the
great mass of unprejudiced readers.
But while this is admitted, it is also
certain that his main scope and in
tention was not to describe the mode
of baptism; nor to affirm that that
mode was to be universal, the design
was very different.”
Then a few lines further down he
further proceeds to refute the im
mersionist view, and says among
other things, “It is just as true that
they who are baptized by affusion or
sprinkling are baptized into his death.”
3. Calvin. Dr. Cline quotes, “Here
we perceive how baptism- was ad
ministered among the ancients, for
they immersed the whole body in
water.” To which no reference to
Yol. or page is given by Dr. Cline, as
in several other quotations.
Calvin in his Institutes Vol. 2, p.
491 says, “But whether the person
who is baptized be wholly immersed,
and whether thrice or once, or
whether water be only poured or
sprinkled upon him is of no impor
tance. Churches ought to be left in
liberty in this respect to act accor
ding to the difference in countries.”
Again Schaff, Herzog Encyclopedia
of Religious Knowledge, Vol. 1, p.
367, says, “Like Zwingle and Luther,
Calvin had his difficulties with the
Anabaptists (that is the immersion
ists) toward whom he adopted the
same tactics. He met them in public
debate March 18, 1537, and so effec
tually disposed of their arguments,
that he was not troubled again.”
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(TO BE CONCLUDED.)
PING-PONG DENOUNCED.
Cleveland, Ohio.—The subject of
Rev. F. E. J. Lloyd’s sermon at St.
Mark’s church recently was “Games
and sports in relation to the Christian
religion.” He said:
“I am firmly persuaded that too
much time and attention and wealth
are devoted to mere bodily exercises
at the present day. The gymnasium
too usurps the place of the chapel at
many of our colleges, thq horizontal
bar the prayer desk, the manual of
athletics the bible. The exaggerated
tendency to games at the present
time finds a most melancholy illus
tration in what is called ping-pong, a
kill-time expedient, which no one but
an apology for a man or an indolent
and trifling woman would resort to.
There can be fittle doubt that we are
sadly overburdened with games, and
the whole nation is suffering from the
abuses in one form or another arising
from them.
“The craze for ping-gong (which
even the Chinese minister in Wash
ington calls childish) is a very striking
evidence of absolute degeneracy, nor
is it necessary for me to say that it is
entirely beneath the notice of grown
men and women.”
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Major General Haynes has promul
gated the following ruling: “It is
held by the governor and adjutant
general, that appointive offices of the
Arkansas State Guard shall be appor
tioned as near as possible among the
great body of the people at large.
Therefore they shall be if practicable
so chosen that each section of the
state may have its due and proper
representation where the military
office is appointive and commissions
are to issue in either the staff or line
of the military establishment of the
state.
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Governor Davis Saturday pardoned
P. P. Helm of Independence county,
convicted in April 1901, of forgery
and sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary.
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FIRST COTTON BLOOM.
Ed Pegg, a sturdy and industrious
negro farmer living on the farm of J.
>R. Cox, east of Diaz, was in town
Monday morning with several cotton
blooms, probably the first of the sea
son. He had several red blossoms
which had fallen off and were prob
ably first open about June 10 or 11.
Pegg says that he has an SO acre
field in cultivation planted about
April 10. He has plowed it six times
and don’t believe there are five
pounds of grass and weeds in the
whole tract. Having been planted
but two months ago, the growth has
been marvelous, as it is now from
knee to waist high.
Cotton prospects were never bettor
say many of our oldest farmers and
certainly it is far ahead in point of time
of an average year, as the first bloom
is often not reported until after the
4th of July.
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BRIDGE BILL PASSED.
The Senate having already taken
favorable action on the bill providing
for the erection of a bridge over
White River at Newport, by the New
port Bridge, Belt and Terminal Com
pany, the passage of that measure by
the House upon Saturday, removes
the last barrier towards the con
struction work of the Morning Star
Railway.
There will be a meeting of the
directors at the general offices in this
city Wednesday, when it is hoped
that something definite may be an
nounced.
ANOTHER DEADLOCK EXPECTED.
The First district Democratic con
gressional convention met at Wynne
Monday to nominate a candidate, for
congress to succeed Mr. McCulloch of
Marianna. Hon. Bruce Macon of Hel
ena, Hon. Eugene Parrish of Jones
boro and Judge Felix G. Taylor of
Jonesboro are the candidates. The
convention is composed of seventy
two delegates. Mr. Macon leads with
thirty-five votes, or two short of the
requisite number. In the primaries
he carried the following counties:
Phillips, St. Francis, Woodruff, Lee
and Mississippi. Woodruff is also
claimed by Mr. Parrish. Judge Tay
lor carried the following counties in
the primary: Clay 8, Crittenden 4,
Poinsett 4; total 16. Mr. Parish, the
third candidate, carried the following
counties: Cross 6, Craighead 9,
Greene, 7; total 21. If Woodruff
county should eventually go to Par
rish it would still leave him six short
of the nomination. Every Demo
cratic politician of note from that
section will attend the convention.
Two years ago a deadlock of several
weeks’ duration occurred in the same
district. *
McCRORY TO BE DRY.
The state Supreme Court, through
Chief Justice Bunn on Saturday
handed down an important decision
on the question of licensing saloons at
McCrory, which reverses the rulings
of the lower courts and makes Mc
Crory a “dry” town.
The prohibitionists in a petition,
signed by G. B. Fakes et al. and con
taining 609 names prayed the Wood
ruff county court for an order pro
hibiting the sale of intoxicants within
three miles of the Methodist church of
McCrory. At the same time, saloon
men had made application for re
newal of dramshop license and offered
a petition signed by 171 persons, ask
ing that their names be taken from
the prohibition petition as they were
made or authorized without due con
sideration and under a misapprehen- t
sion of the facts and results.
The county court granted the pe
tition of these remonstrants and the
circuit court on appeal affirmed the
decision, but the Supreme Court has
remanded the case, with directions to
make all orders necessary in coh
formitory to this opinion and not
otherwise.
Rock candy drip again for sale at
The Cash Grocery. 48 d.
Miss Lula Hardy of Batesville is
visiting her cousin Miss Lillie Bandy.
Gustave Jones went down the Choc
taw Monday morning on a business
Miss Mattie Kennard of Batesville
is the guest of the family of Captain
John Warner.
Charley Terry returned to Cotton
Plant Monday morning, after spend
ing Sunday at home.
The arrivals at the Hazel Sunday
were R. H. Powell, E. R. Butler,
Batesville; J. J. Hunter, John H.
Burns, E. C. Romine, Little Rock.
The Cash Grocery never advertises
anything it doesn’t have. When you
read that any article can be purchased
at that store, you may know it’s so.
48 d.
Guy L. Hatfield, agent for North
Eastern Arkansas of the Arkansas
Live Stock Insurance Company, went
to Walnut Ridge Monday on busi
ness.
Mrs. Marvin Hare, who was very
low Sunday night and not expected to
live, was better this morning and more
encouraging assurances have been
received.
Miss Hilda Bailey left Monday
morning for Brinkley to Bpend the
week with her cousin Miss Irma
Hooker and will be joined to-morrow
by her mother.
Messrs. Max Mendel, Ike Bottenstein
and others, accompanied by Miss
Josie Weisel, Misses Bernstein and
others spent Sunday on Newton Lake,
where they had a delightful day.
Miss Beulah Baird left Monday
morning over the Choctaw for a
1 month’s visit with her family at their
' new home at Corley. We hope and
| feel sure that her visit will be a pleas
| ant one.