VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. FRIDAY MAY 30, 1902. NUMBER'”34
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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 Jof 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 hake township, Nance's Store Tuesday
and Wednesday, June 10 and 11.
Kichwoods 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, Jackson port, 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
ITnion township. Court House, Newport, fiom
July 7 +o 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, Pastor of
Presbyterian Church, Relative to
Essentiality of Baptism and
Mode Practiced in
Scriptures.
(CONTINUED FROM WEDNESDAY.)
(a.)—However let us consider the
baptism of the Apostle Paul in Da
mascus, Acts 22:16. Paul says to
Ananias “Arise and be baptized and
wash away thy sins.” He does
not say “wait until we can go to a
river.” What would most likely have
been the thoughts of a zealous Jew
like Paul, upon hearing those words?
Doubtless those of the Psalmist,
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be
clean, wash me and I shall be whiter
than snow,” which we all understand
to refer to sprinkling a man with
water, into which the hyssop was
dipped to cleanse him that was de
filed by sin.
(b.)—Again, Saul at this time was
blind and had had no food or water
for three days. Again, there were
enemies who had heard of this won
derful conversion and who were in
censed against him for turning against
them.
Under these circumstances is it
likely, is it possible that Ananias
would have required Saul to go out
to a river for the purpose of immer
sion? Or is there any knowledge or
evidence that there were any pools
built bv the Christians there in that
day? There is no evidence that the
Jews had them for such purposes; or
if there had been any built, would the
opponents of Christianity have let
them alone, especially as they perse
cuted this same Saul so relentlessly
as that he had to escape from the city
by a basket let down from the wall?
(c.)—Again verse 18 says that he
arose and was baptized; the more
correct translation of the participle
“anastas” is, “standing up.” In the
house “standing up” this great
apostle was baptized. Tne Inference
is plain. He was not immersed stand
ing up.
IV.—The fhillippian jailor.—
Acts 16:23-39. Some who hold
to immersion claim that the jailor
took the prisoners to some stream,
If he did not, but remained in the
jail, the jailor was certainly not im
mersed, as there were no rivers or
baptismal founts either in that hea
then prison.
Note first, the jailor was very much
terrified, seeing the prison doors all
open, thinking that all the prisoners
had escaped, since he had been es
pecially instructed to keep them; and
for this purpose had put them into
the inner prison and made their feet
fast in the stocks. Thinking that
they had escaped he was about to fall
upon his sword and commit suicide
knowing that the Roman government
would take his life should any prisoner
escape from him.
Now under these circumstances
would the jailor have dared risk tak
ing these prisoners out of the jail to
a stream or any body of water at the
depth of midnight? To convince a
jury upon even the possibility of such
a deed there would have to be shown
the actual facts of the trip. It is
simply incredible to suppose that a
man in such a state of mind, as was
this jailor, would have run such a risk.
Again we have almost the direct
statement of Paul to the effect that
at the time of the jailor’s baptism he
had not gone forth from the prison
walls.
It is true that verses 30 and 34 say
that he brought them out; and he
brought them into his bouse. Which
evidently means that he still had them
within the prison walls and in his
custody, as prisoners, as is
shown by the answer of Paul to him
when he said i^he magistrates have
sent to let you go * * * * “But Paul
said unto them, they have beaten us
openly uncondemned, being Romans,
and have cast us into prison, and now
do they thrust us out privily * * * And
they came and besought them and
brought them out, and desired them
to depart out of the city. And they
went out of the prison.” If they had
been out of the prison before when
in the jailor’s house, the magistrates
would have known it and visited
vengeance upon the jailor. Besides,
the verse says “they took them out of
the prison.”
Again, the text says that they were
baptized at once upon hearing the
words of Paul ‘'Believe on the Lore
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved
and thy house * * * and was baptized
he and all bis straightway * * * re
joiced believing with all his house,’
with the women and the servants anc
the children.
Time forbids us to speak in par
ticular at this time of the baptism o
Cornelius the centurion, whose bap
tism is especially suggestive of tin
baptism of the Holy Ghost, which wai
so closely allied to it in his case botl
in time and deed.
Also the baptism of the 3,000 bj
Peter and the other apostles on the
day of Pentecost in Jerusalem, wher<
there is no stream possibly larg<
enough to immerse them, and at;
time of persecution when such an ac
had to be done quickly on account o
the virulence and vigilance of the au
thorities. Besides the physical tasl
of immersing such a number (3,000
under such time of persecution by 1
men, if it were proven that th<
streams or pools were available.
V.—But we wish to speak a wor<
concerning the very much mootei
meaning of the Greek word, baptidzo
And by way of general application wi
would say that the weight of author
ity of these heathen Greek writer
that are quoted, in order to satisf;
yourself you will have to investigat
them all yourself, or take my word o
some other person’s word in whon
vou may have the most confidence.
Our declaration after a careful am
painstaking investigation is that th
word even in the heathen or classic
Greek sometimes means to wash, t
sprinkle, to dip or plunge, having
general meaning, which signifies th
application of water in some way.
In no case have we found immers
to be the logical translation from th
Greek word baptidzo, as was show:
in the above examples.
But as we said in the beginning, w
are willing to appeal to scriptur
alone in confirmation of our thesii
Let us see if baptidzo can mean im
merse in the following passages c
scripture:
In Matt. 3:11 John the Baptist say
“He shall baptize y'ou with the Hoi
Ghost.” As we have seen, can
possibly be contended that the dig
ciples were immersed with the hoi
ghost, by being taken and dipped inti
it, as into water?
In fulfillment of this prophecy c
the baptism of the Holy Ghost, Pete
quotes in Acts 2-17. “I will pour ou
my spirit” so tnat baptidzo mean
“pour out,” here at least. Again i
verse 33, “He hath shed forth thi
which ye now see and hear.” Agai
baptidzei means “shed forth. Agai
John the Baptist said that Christ wa
“Ho baptidzon,—He who baptizet
with the holy ghost. Peter says i
Acts 2:17, that this prophecy and tha
of Joel were fulfilled in the words “
will pour out of my spirit upon a:
flesh.” Again Baptidzo is translate!
by “pouring out.” These are not m,
tnnmilotmna hut thnao nf Hfrintur*
itself, Cf. References, 1.—Acts 2:17
2.—Acts 2:33, 3.—O baptidzon—2:17
4.—Acts 1:5.
In Acts 1:5 Christ himself says t
his disciples. “Ye shall be bap-tis
tha-ses-tbe with the holy ghost”—th<
future passive tense of “baptidzo.’
And how did He himself baptize then
with the Holy Ghost from Heaven
By pouring out or by effusion. Si
here are several instances in the nev
testament where the word baptidzo i
clearly and directly translated “pou
out,” “shed forth,” “fell on them;’
is it once interpreted or translate!
by scripture “immerse?” Not once
(CONCLUDED SATURDAY.)
CLOVER CLUB ENTERTAINED.
Mrs. S. R. Phillips entertained thi
Clover Club Thursday afternoon ii
her usual cordial and gracious man
ner. While Mrs. Phillips is not ;
member of this club, the function wa
as free from formality as were it give:
by a member.
A delicate lunch repast was nice!
served by Misses Noreene Kinma
and Mary Bailey and the reception i
every particular afforded the guest
great pleasure.
Those present aside from club mem
bers w’ere Mesdames T. E. Morrisoi
L. Minor, L. J. Dills and F. S. Hess.
STORY OF HIS FALL.
History of Charges Against Rev. R. S.
Deener Reviewed.—His Flight to
Mexico, Where a Volcano
Destroyed His Property
Life He Says Has Been
“A Hell Upon
Earth.”
Rev. R. S. Deener was first ar
( rested on June 3, 1893, at Newport,
| Jackson county, as he alighted from
the Batesville train, on a charge of
forgery made by Hon. Paul Butler,
then assistant prosecuting attorney.
i He had then been pastor of the M. E.
' church at Batesville for nearly three
l years, secretary for two years of the
White River conference of the M. E.
' church, and grand prelate for two
years of the Arkansas Grand Lodge
of Knights Templar.
Deener is about 37 or 38 years of
, age and is a nephew of Bishop Malla
lien of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He is brilliant dnd cultured
j and a fine pulpit orator of singular
j power and one of the most popular
preachers ever sent to Batesville.
‘ While in Batesville he was always
engaged in business ventures of some
kind outside of his church affairs. He
’ owned the Arkansas poultry farm,
eighty acres of land in the suburbs of
„ Little Rock, and some farming lands
5 in Lee county, and his wife also bad
uu BximiBive colioii plantation near
j Marianna, in Lee county.
The correspondent of the Little
Rock Gazette, from which the fore
going has been taken, visited Deeher
in jail the other day and he gave out
the following story of his years of
3 exile:
“Sheriff Hinkle caught me at Hunt
ington, and I have been gone from
Batesville about ten years. I went to
Chilpancinge, Mexico, and went into
the drug business and had a good
business until last February, when my
drug store and two young men who
were my clerks were buried together
{ in a volcano. It is a wonder I and
my wife were not killed too, but it
happened we went out to a rope
walking that afternoon, as it was on
^ Sunday. I was in two blocks of the
edge of the volcano and a number
were killed, in fact, nearly all who
did not go out to the street exercises
were lost. My drug store was a total
j loss, and I lost everything in the
world I had. My wife has some rela
tives at Marianna, Lee county, and
b had some business interests there to
see after, so after our misfortune we
1
decided to return to Arkansas We
9
returned in March and she is >w at
Marianna and does not know I am a
captured man today. I went to Hunt
3 ington, Ark., where my cousin lives,
i and was there on a visit. I was not
t expecting Sheriff Hinkle at all and I
was there on a visit and was going
I from there into the mining regions of
, North Arkansas and try to make
some money, and was then aiming to
} give up and stand my trial, but I have
had a hard time and my life the past
’ ten years has been a hell on earth to
’ me.”
> BUSINESS COLLEGE
j TO LOCATE HERE.
> _
Dr. Henry Owen is in receipt of a
’ letter from R. W. Carter of the Nelson
} Business College, stating that a branch
' school will be opened in Newport
i about June 9, under the principalship
of Professor Carter.
The Nelson Business College, with
* headquarters in Cincinnati and branch
* schools in five of the largest cities of
the country, of which Memphis is one,
has a reputation that is not surpassed
by any institution of its character.
A representative of the school re
3 cently visited Newport and thinks it a
i good location and is willing to risk
- his judgment. Quarters^probably the
i Doswell Institute, will be rented for
s three months and if the people of this
i section manifest an interest in its
work by patronage, a permanent lo
f cation will be purchased.
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