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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 fax 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 Take 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, Wednesr
day and Thursday June 18 and 19.
Village township, Barnes’ Mill, Friday
June 20.
JefTerson township, Jacksonport, Monday and
Tuesday, June 23 and 24.
Bird township,, Elgin, Wednesday June 25.
Bi-d township, Centerville, Thursday, June 26.
Bird township, Tuckermnn, 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 9.)
1. Mosheim’s Church History
says, “The sacrament of baptism was
administered in this, the first century
by an immersion of the whole body in
the baptismal font.”—Vol. 1, p. 46.
2. Schaff’s Church History says,
“The usual form of the act was im
mersion as is plain from the original
meaning of the Greek baptizein and
baptisina.”—Vol. 1, p. 122.
3. Neander’s Church History
says, “The usual form of submersion
at baptism, practiced by the Jews,
was passed over to the Gentile Chris
tians.”—p. 161.
4. Dean Stanley says, “England
lays less stress on its retention of
what is undoubtedly the primitive
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tnry the universal mode of baptism in
Christendom.”
5. Von Doellinger’s Church
History, p. 294, says, “Baptism by
immersion continued to be the pre
vailing practice of the church as late
as the 14th century.”
6. Dr. Blount, an eminent Epis
copalian says, “The innovation of af
fusion, or pouring water on the bap
tized, afterward began in the Latin
church, (the Roman Catholic) and
has become the general western
usage.”
7. Dr. Stuart says, “It will be
seen for all this that Christians began
somewhat early to deflect from the
ancient practice of immersing.”—
p. 175.
8. Bishop Kenrick, speaking of
the prevalence of infant baptism says
“Hence the necessity of receding
from the mode of immersion became
still more frequent, since the tender
infant oftentimes could not be im
mersed without peril to its life. The
cases thus multiplying, the more
solemn method fyl1 gradually into
disuse, until it was in most places, en
tirely superseded.”
The immersion of healthy children
was the rule in John Wesley’s times,
for when he was arrested in Georgia
in 1729 for violating certain laws, one
of the charges made against him was
his refusal to “sprinkle” a healthy
child on demand of its mother. Mr.
Wesley was willing to immerse it, but
would not sprinkle it unless its
mother would say it was sick. If
Methodist ministers now would con
fine their sprinkling to sick people in
imitation of the founder of Methodism
they would not only be better Metho
dists, but decidedly more apostolic in
their practice.
9. Dean Stanley, in his article on
baptism says, “The substitution of
sprinkling for immersion is a greater
change even than that which the
Roman Catholic church has made in
administering the sacrament of the
Lord’s Supper in the bread without
the wine. For that was a change
which did not affect the thing that
was signified; whereas the change
from immersion to sprinkling has set
aside the larger part of apostolic lan
guage regarding baptism, and has al
tered the very meaning of the word.”
—pp. 60, 61.
Men are to be pitied who will con
tend for sprinkling upon the baseless
claims that either the New Testament
church practiced it or that the word
baptize ever meant to sprinkle. Let
us see how and when sprinkling was
introduced.
10. Bonner, in his “History of the
Popes” says, “Baptism by immersion
was undoubtedly the apostolic prac
tice, and it was never dispensed with
by the church except in cases of sick
ness or when a sufficient quantity of
water could not be had. In both these
cases, baptism by aspersion or sprink
ling was allowed, but in no other.”—
Vol. 1, p. 176.
11. Dr. Schafp answers the when
and how thus: “The question now
arises, when and how came the mode
of pouring and sprinkling to take the
place of immersion and emersion as a
rule? The change was gradual and
confined to the Western or Roman
Catholic churches. The Roman church
as we have seen, backed by the au
thority of Thomas Acquinas, “the
Angelic Doctor,” took the lead in the
13th century, yet so as to retain in
her rituals the form of immersion as
the older and better mode. The prac
tice prevailed over the theory, and
the exception became the rule.”—
p. 51.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
STATE CONVENTION CONVENES.
The meeting of the Democratic
state convention was called for Tues
day noon, to be held in the Capital
theater at Little Rock and indications
Monday night according to the Ga
zette, pointed to the attendance of the
full 503 delegates.
Congressman T. C. McRae’s name
is mentioned in connection with the
chairmanship of the convention, and
he will probably be chosen without
opposition, perhaps both as tempora
ry and permanent chairman.
The platform to be adopted by
the convention today elicits but little
discussion, it being the consensus of
opinion among the well-informed that
the Kansas City declaration of 1900
will be endorsed, so far as the nation
al issues are concerned.
Governor Davis will address the
convention briefly in acceptance of
the nomination for a second term,
which he won at the March primaries.
The nominations will all be settled in
short order, and the convention will
undoubtedly conclude its work this
evening.
Hon. Carroll Armstrong, according
to all indications, will be honored by
reelection to the state chairmanship.
RECEIVED BY HIS
HOME CHURCH.
Little Rock, Ark., June 9.—Gov.
Davis is again a member of the Bap
tist church in good standing. Im
mediately after his expulsion from
the Second Baptist church of Little
Rock, the governor received a num
ber of letters from his old home at
Russellville inviting him to return and
again join the Baptist church at that
place. He went to Russellville Satur
day and was on Sunday received in
full fellowship in the church. Gov.
Davis’ friends claim that this is a com
plete vindication of the governor by
the church and the people among
whom he grew from childhood and
with whom he battled his way to the
present high place he holds in the af
fections of the people of Arkansas.
BREAKING UP THE BAND.
If the arrest of horsethieves, which
has been going on the past two weeks,
continues, the band which has in
fested Arkansas from the Missouri
line aown tnrougn mis section along
White river will soon be effectually
broken up.
Joe and Dave Clinton, who were
arrested near Tupelo by Deputy Wal
ter Daniels, are now in jail. They
were indicted five years ago for the
alleged stealing of Sam Harvey’s
mules in Bird township, but the of
ficers had never been able to locate
them. A warrant is out for the ar
rest of Will Bryant, a brother-in-law
of the Clinton boys and Deputy Neal
recently tried to secure his arrest, but
he must have been warned and had
decamped.
GOLDEN WEDDING
CELEBRATION.
A happy and notable event will
take place in St. Louis June 17, in the
fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Hirsch. Their
golden wedding will be celebrated by
a family reunion. The joyous occa
sion will bring together the following
immediate relatives and 21 grand
children. The sons and their wives
and the daughters and their hus
bands who will be present are Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Hirsch, of Little Rock;
Mr. and Mrs. L. Hirsch, of Newport,
Mr. Ralph Hirsch, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Strauss, and Mr. J. D. Goldman, of
St. Lonis.
LODGE MEETINGS.
I. O. O. F.—Every Monday.
Red Men.—E' ery Tuesday.
Royal Arch—1st and 3rd Friday.
Jackson Lodge—2nd Wednesday.
Jackson Chapter—4th Thursday.
K. of P.—1st and 3rd Wednesday.
DROWNED IN WHITE RIVER.
Silas Lyle Loses His Life While Pearl
ing in White River Below New
port Monday Afternoon.
Silas Lyle, a young man whose
home is at Tyronza, in Poinsett coun
ty, waB drowned Monday afternoon
about one mile below this city on
White river. He came here to en
gage in pearling and was in the em
ploy of a man named Laird.
Monday afternoon between three
and four o’clock, he was in a boat,
together with another man, when the
grappling hooks became entangled in
some floating rubbish which he tried
bo kick out of the way with his foot.
He became overbalanced and pitched
head-first into the water.
His companion, seeing he was about
bo drown, plunged in after him- Lyle
grabbed his coat, tearing a part of the
fleeve out. He was so frantic that
his would-be rescuer could accom
plish nothing and was compelled to
leave him to his fate, after a narrow
aonano fr»nm hoimr nnllpfl nnHflr
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Lyle was a young man of medium
aeight and build and smooth faced,
aut had few acquaintances here, as
ae had not been long engaged in the
msiness. It happened that his
arother Dr. Lyle of Tyronza, was here
she same afternoon on his way to Sul
phur Rock. He had hardly begun to
make inquiries as to where he might
find his brother, when the reports of
the latter’s death reached town.
The brother at once took in charge
the dredging of the river and this
work was continued through the
night and Tuesday but the body had
not been found at latest reports. The
story of the young man’s death is a
very sad one, but at the same time it
is a wonder that more drownings
have not been reported considering
the large number of people now to be
found pearling on White River.
BAPTIZERS NEARLY DROWNED.
Clarendon, Ark., June 8.—Rev. C.
M. Myrick was baptizing Miss Virgie
Hurst this afternoon in White river
and he and the young lady got in
water over their heads.
Two elders of the church went
promptly to their rescue.
Much excitement was caused among
the spectators and the relatives of
the endangered persons became
frantic.
MISSING MULE DEALER.
Jas. L. Johnston was up from his
Bay Farm Wednesday, and stated that
he had never found any reliable clue
to the whereabouts of his brother
John, who was last seen in Newport,
with about #1,000 in cash on his per
son, on March 21 last. It is thought
he was murdered in Newport for his
money.—Corning Courier.
James Johnston was recently in
Newport tolling the same story, but
te has nothing to corroborate his sus
picions, except the mysterious dis
appearance of his brother, whom it
seems was in the habit of “tanking
up,” when enjoying prosperity. That
he disappeared through foul dealing
is scouted by officers and citizens gen
erally here.
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