VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY JUNE 6, 1902. NUMBER 40
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ASSESSOR’S NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the under
signed, as assessor of Jackson county,
Arkansas, will meet the people of the
different townships at the following times and
places, for the purpose Jot listing the Personal
Property and Per Capita Tax for the
year 1902:
Barren township, McDougal’s residence, Mon
day and Tuesday, June 2, and 3.
Glaize township, Grand Glaize, Wednesday
and Thursday June 4 and 5.
Breckinridge township, Auvergne, Friday
June 6.
Breckinridge township, Weldon, Saturday
June 7.
Breckinridge township, Tupelo, Monday
June 9.
Cow Eake township, Nance’s Store Tuesday
and Wednesday, June 10 and 11.
Richwoods township, Martin’s Old Residence,
Thursday and Friday, June 12 and 13.
Cache township, Burton’s Store, Saturday
June 14.
' Cache township, Martin’s School House, Mon
day and Tuesday June 16, and 17.
Grubbs township, Robinson’s Chapel, Wednes
day and Thursday June 18 and 19.
Village township, Barnes’ Mill, Friday
June 20.
Jefferson township, Jacksonport, Monday and
Tuesday, June 23 and 24.
Bird township, Elgin, Wednesday June 25.
Bird township, Centerville, Thursday, June 26.
Bird township, Tuckerman, Friday and Sat
urday, June 27 and 28.
Glass township, Swifon, Monday June 30
Tuesday and Wednesday, July 1 and 2.
Union township, Court House, Newport, from
July 7 to August 20.
Please bring along your deeds or last tax
receipts.
Given under my hand this 6th day of
May 1902.
B. F. SIMMONS
Assessor of Jackson County.
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SERMON ON BAPTISM
BY REV. L. H. RICHARDSON.
Reviewed by Rev. C. C. Cline.
(CONTINUED FROM JUNE 4.)
Hence Paul calls the blood of Christ
“the blood of spririkling” in Heb. 12:
24. So also does Peter in I. Pet. 1:2,
in which he shows the relationship of
the “obedience” to the external com
mand to be baptized and the internal
cleansing by “the sprinkling of the
blood of Christ.” Paul calls the ex
ternal “the washing of our bodies in
pure water,” and the internal work
that Christ does for us, “the sprink
ling of our hearts from an evil con
science.” Now if “sprinkling” is to
be retained in Isa. 52:12, “So shall He
sprinkle many nations,” the New
Testament writers clearly define the
“sprinkling” Christ does for the na
tions to.Jbe the “sprinkling of the
hearts-with His blood,” the unmis
takable antitype of all the “sprink
ling” of blood, of “blood and water,”
of “blood,” “water” and “ashes” of
the Mosaic covenant. I challenge
Mr. R. or any other defender of
“sprinkling” for baptism, to prove a
single case in either testament- where
water unmixed with anything else,
was sprinkled or commanded to be
sprinkled upon any body or thing as a
religious act.
We are now7 ready to hear what the
prince of Presbyterian commentators
has to say about Isa. 52:16.
3. Albert Barnes says, “It may
be remarked that whichever of the
above senses may be assigned, it fur
nishes no argument for the practice
of sprinkling in baptism. It refers to
the fact of his purifying or cleansing
the nations, and not to the ordinance
of Christian baptism; nor shall it be
used as an argument in reference to
the mode in which that should be ad
ministered.”
It is therefore established that
whether “sprinkle” is, or is not a cor
rect rendering of the Hebrew nazab,
by the seventy learned Greek speak
ing Jews, into Greek by the w7ord
thamazo, to “astonish,” the text can
not be pressed into service as an ar
gument in favor of “sprinkling,” the
learned Dr. Barnes decides.
We will conclude the discussion of
the Eunuch’s baptism by quoting
from two other prominent Presby
terian scholars.
4. Turretin, Professor of Theol
ogy in Geneva says:
“For as in baptism when performed
in the pi’imitive manner, by immer
sion and emersion, descending into
the water and again going out of it, as
iix the case of the Eunuch, (Acts 8:38
3,) yea and what is more, as by this
rite, when persons are immersed in
water, they are overwhelmed and as
it wrere buried, and in a manner
buried together with Christ and again
they emerge, seem to be raised out .of
the grave and are said to be riseix
again w'ith Chiust.—Vol. 3:326.
Richard Baxter on this case of
bantisnx. remarks:
“It is commonly confessed by us to
the Anabaptists, as our commenta
tors declare that in the apostle’s time,
the baptized were dipped overhead in
water, and this signified their pro
fession, both of believing in the burial
and resurrection of Christ and of
their dying to sin and living to
Christ.”—(page 70.)
C—PRESBYTERIAN SCHOLARS ON THE
ORIGINAL MODE OF BAPTISM.
1. John Calvin says, “The word
baptize means to immerse, and it is
certain that the rite of immersion was
observed by the ancients.”—Inst,
book 4, chap. 15.
2. Beza, a colleague of Calvin says,
“ChriBt commanded us to be baptized,
by which word it is certain immersion
is signified. To be baptized in water
signifies no other than to be immersed
in water, which is the external cere
mony of baptism.”
3. Zwingle another of Calvin’s
associates said, “When ye were im
mersed into the water of baptism, ye
were engrafted into the death of
Christ; that is, the immersion of your
body into water was a sign that ye
ought to be engrafted into Christ and
his death.”
Dr. Lyman Coleman said, “We
cannot resist the conviction that this
mode of baptism was unquestionably
the common mode of baptism.”
Before giving my final quotation
from Dr. George Campbell I wish to
express my astonishment at the ut
ter disregard of the scholarship of the
world everywhere manifested in the
sermon of Mr. Richardson. Since
many of his brethren and sisters did
not follow his example in absenting
themselves from my meeting but
were quite regular in their attendance
I thought it but just to them as well
as to the general public, to let Presby
terian scholars reply to Mr. R’s ser
mon first, to be followed by the reply
of Episcopalian authors, and then to
present in a brief article the whole of
the bible teaching upon the two acts,
“sprinkling” and “dipping” which he
has so unfortunately blended into
“two modes of baptism.”
Dr. W. D. Powell of Mexico, writing
from Athens, Greece, says, “I found
that all churches in Greece—the Pres
byterian included—are compelled to
immerse candidates for baptism, for
as one of their professors remarked,
the commonest day laborer under
stands nothing else for baptidzo but
immersion.”
5. Dr. George Campbell in Lec
ture 10, pp. 294-295, speaks of such
defenders of sprinkling as Mr. R. in
these words, “I have heard of a dis
putant of this stamp, in defiance of
etymology and use, who maintained
that the word rendered in the New
Testament, baptize, means more
properly to spriuKie, tuaii to piuiigo,
and in defiance of all antiquity, that
the former method was the earliest,
and for many centuries the most
general practice in baptizing.”
Such is the defiance of “etymology
and use and all antiquity,” pervading
Mr. R’s. sermon, but Dr. Campbell
had not heard of Mr. R. He proceeds
to give this opinion of such defiance.
“One who argues in this manner
never fails with persons of knowlege
to betray the cause he would defend;
and though in respect to the vulgar,
bold assertions generally succeed as
well as arguments, sometimes better,
yet a candid mind will disdain to take
the help of a falsehood even in sup
port of truth.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
APPROVE SUIT INSTITUTED.
The directors of the Newport Oil
Prospecting company held a meeting
Friday morning and ratified the ac
tion of the committee appointed for
the purpose of bringing a suit against
Malang & Cowan for non-fulfillment
of their contract.
Phillips & Campbell, the attorneys
for the oil company are enthusiastic
in their opinion that the contractors
have not in any degree complied with
their contract and that by pressing
the matter, the court in equity will
give a judgment against them for
the full amount of money that they
have received, which sum will have
to be returned to the stockholders of
the company, unless the contractors
should see fit to and find themselves
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put it down two thousand feet, as
they agreed to do in their original
contract.
So the way the matter now looks
the stockholders will get all of their
money, or get a two thousand foot
hole to show for the money that they
have spent. No one expected to
strike either gas or oil within a depth
of one thousand feet, and all are very
anxious to see what may be found
below, between one thousand and
fifteen hundred especially. The di
rectors mean business this time and
the stockholders may yet have some
thing to show for their money or
have it all returned to them.
SURPRISE WEDDING AT
FORREST CITY.
Forrest City, June 4.—A quiet home
wedding was celebrated at the resi
dence of Sheriff W. E. Williams at 5
o’clock p. m. Wednesday. His beau
tiful daughter, Miss Mabel, was united
to Fred Atkins, Rev. Dyer officiating.
It was quite a surprise, the newly wed
leaving at once on their honeymoon.
The groom is from a Memphis fam
ily and is proprietor of a store in
Forrest City, while the bride, who has
visited in Newport, is a young lady of
many charms of beauty and character,
whose friends are cordial in their good
wishes for her future happiness.
TUCKERMAN FREIGHT WRECK.
South bound freight train No. 81,
consisting of 55 cars was wrecked in
the south edge of Tuckerman Thurs
day morning about 11 o’clock, twelve
cars being ditched. The train was
passing the south end of the switch
at only a fair rate of speed, when the
air hose bursted, throwing on the
brake and causing the dropping of the
djSfaw bar.
The track at this point is on a very
low embankment or the wreck would
have been worse. Nine of the twelve
cars were loaded, one with dynamite,
one with pickles, another with corn
and a fourth with axles.
The dynamite was packed in boxes
and scattered all about in the wreck.
The town of Tuckerman and train
men have every reason to be thank
ful over their almost miraculous es
cape, and to tell the truth they have
done no little thinking as to what “it
might have been” had ignition taken
place through the crushing of this
high explosive between iron and
steel, such as might very naturally
have resulted in such a wreck.
The wrecking trains from Poplar
Bluff and Little Rock were at once
dispatched to the scene and had the
track cleared in time for No. 12 to
pass. No. 4, the north bound noon
train was sent around from Bald
Knob to Knobel via Wynne.
INSURGENTS PROMISE TICKET.
At the conclusion of a conference
held Wednesday by Messrs. B. M.
Foreman, H. F. Auten and C. D.
Greaves, the Republican insurgent
leaders, the first-named gentleman
made the following statement to the
Little Rock Democrat: •y
“Our faction will hold a state con
vention in the statehouse on June 26,
the date of the convention called oy
the Clayton crowd, and we wtjl nom
inate a candidate for governors We
don’t propose to go into their conven
tion and be denied admission as is rat®
programme outlined by those fellows. ^ ~rr«j
Messrs. Clayton, Remmel and Whip
ple have repeatedly stated to Presi
dent Roosevelt that our following did
not amount to 300 voters, and we now
propose to see which side has the
largest following by making the vote
for governor the test.”
PICNICKERS RETURN.
The Episcopalian Sunday School
picnickers returned from their out
ing Friday morning, missing their
train through a misunderstanding
with the railroad company. They
had a fine time and were not a bit
sorry their stay in our hospitable
sister city was prolonged.
The picnic was held at the fair
grounds and of all the basket dinners
that have ever been heard of, the
partakers from Newport assert this
was the best. Mrs. J. E. Roseborough
gave a party that evening in honor of
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Batesville were ti >w> n to their
guests.
Those taking .. trii Messrs,
and Mesdames C. li. ite, Gustave
Jones; Mesdames J. L. Sells, Narcie
Minor, Wm. Gregg, T. D. Kinman Sr.
and Jr., L. B. Young; Misses Noreene
Kinman, Mary Bailey, Stella Echols,
Nellie Terry, Jennie McCauley, Lucy
Brandenburg; Edwin Carter, Tom
Dillard, Leah and Ellen Jones, Minnie
Willie and Charles Minor, Bertha and
Ralph Hirsch, Lucile Taylor, Mary
and Ella Hobday, Hortense and
□harlie Hite, Margerite Gregg, Ethel
Johnson, Laura Mosby, Thadese Kin
man and Lucy Bailey.
HELD FOR TRIAL.
The preliminary examination of
Harvey Osborn and J. Edwards, ar
rested at Bradford Wednesday,
charged with horse stealing, was held
before Justice Jucien B. Harris Fri
day, and the defendants bound over
to the next term of court in the sum
of #500 each.
This bond had not been made up at
press hour, but the attorney for the
defendants, Love Grant, expected to
be able to secure same, J. E. Edwards,
father of one of the prisoners, having
agreed to sign his son’s bond.
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