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Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1945-1949 Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine 7-22-1948 July 22, 1948 Arkansas Baptist State Convention Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbn_45-49 Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Mass Communication Commons, and the Organizational Communication Commons Recommended Citation Arkansas Baptist State Convention, "July 22, 1948" (1948). Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1945-1949. 55. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbn_45-49/55 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1945-1949 by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact mortensona@obu.edu. lUMBER 29 LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, JULY 22, 1948 VOLUME 47 ) l/(1/le c~(/ el PAGE TWO ARKANSAS BAPTIST Ol'igia ol Poul'iag aad Spl'iakliag. THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR HELPER The idea of pouring and sprinkling for as heretics, and when they took the part A Devotion by the Editor baptism originated with Justin Martyr about of the people in the peasants war,. Luther "Likewise the . Spirit also helpeth our in A. D. 150. One hundred years later we have advised that they be "kicked down, strangled firmities." the account of what they called clinic, couch, and stabbed without mercy," this author goes In the midst of our deepest confusion and baptism. One by the name of Novatian was on to relate. Baptists are not and never have despair "we know not what to pray for as sick unto death and wanted baptism, and been Protestants. we ought." In the most severe trials of llfe, being too ill to be carried to the church and They never protested and came out of when the l;lurdens weigh heaviest and the immersed, tubs of water were poured upon Catholicism for they have never been in. heart aches as if it would break, we cry, him on his bed, thus immersing him. As Cardinal Gibbons when Bishop of North "Oh God ... I" And we can go no further, About this time Tertulian was teaching Carolina once said to R. W. Smith, his language utterly breaks down and words baptismal regeneration; that there could be neighbor, a Baptist. minister: "I know his become futile- and helpless. - no regenerati_on without baptism and that tory, You Baptists are not Protestants. You No words have yet been coined to ade the pouring of water, aspersion, upon the have been at one end of the line and we quately, e:xpress the deepest yearnings of the candidate~s head answered the same as im Catholics at the other all down the centuries. human heart. And how helpless we feel with mersing him in the water. Cyprion, who was If I were not a Catholic priest, I would be out words! A loved one standing by, also bishop of Africa, gave his advocacy to this a Baptist minister. helpless but sympathetic, asks, "What do form of baptism, holding that it should be Baptists, you have a heritage and a history. you want, dear?" And the answer comes back, triune, the three-fold pouring of water on Know your history. Know your Bible. Know "I don't know." the head in the name of the Father and of the doctrines and principles Scripturally That is a dark picture which may truly the Son and of the Holy Ghost, thus cleans founded, upon which as a Baptist you stand. represent the experience of JDaJlY a person. ing away sin because the act had the power Is there no hope, no succor, no release,.. no of regeneration. -Main Street Baptist Bulletin, Hattiesburg, Miss. power to cope with the situation? • Yes, we In 1311, pouring a small quantity of water ---------0001-------- may bless God that there is: "For the Spirit on the head became official Roman Catholic helpeth our infirmities." baptism, making it a symbol of cleansing in The Holy Spirit lends a hand in our strug stead as taught in Scripture a symbol of gles, in our conructs, in our sufferings and the Savior's death, burial, and resurrection: afflictions. He takes over our struggles, He Our missionaries who direct and teach in If not only changing the Scripture mode, but substitutes His strength for our weakness. the Girls' Training School in Rosario, Argen we yield ourselves to Him, the Holy Spirit the scriptural design, also. Baptisteries where • tina, have written asking that friends in the they immersed their candidates are still to will fight our battles for us, He will stand by States send them left-over Sun~y School. us in temptation, He will not forsake us in be seen where JDaJlY popes are buried;-. and papers and pictures, especially the large teach at Florence and Pisa. our sufferings. ers' pictures, which have been laid aside. Th' The Holy Spirit also intercedes for us be So strongly did they then believe as Bap quarterlies are not useful, but just the illus fore the Father. When we run out of words tists have always believed, that baptism pre trations which can be tom out of them. and our prayers end in a groan, an upward cedes the Lord's Supper, that imposing struc Magazines, such as McCall's, <food HoUse surge of the heart that no words could ex tures were erected some distance away from keeping, and Woman's Home companion, press or describe, the Holy Spirit takes up the main building of worship to contain these have lovely pictures which they would like to our prayers and presents them to the Father baptismal pools. The candidates were im have for class and field work, too. Also, they in wordless entreaty. He knows what we mersed in these pools that are housed in would like to have old Christmas cards. need and He knows all the rich resources of separate buildings and the Lord's Supper If you do prepare a package, remember the the Father. was observed in their houses of worship We may be reassured in our struggles, be proper. following: 1. The address is: Mrs. Anne a. Margrett, 9 de Julio 2775, Rosario, Argentina. cause the Holy Spirit is taking our part and is presenting our case to the Father who When the Lord's Supper came to be no 2. The package should 1DOt weigh more than longer observed as a Memorial of "The two pounds. 3. Magazines can be rolled uP rules over all. Though we may not under Lord's de11oth till he come," it was proclaimed and s en t just two or three at the time. stand, they do; though we may be confused, to be a "holy sacrament," a "holy commun 4. Every package should be marked "impresos they are not; though we may feel helpless, they have the situation thoroughly in hand. ion" with the doctrine o~ substantiation, sin valor commercial." 5. A custom's declar the eating of the actual nesh and drinking ation should never be made. These materials They will not let us down, they will bring the actual blood of Christ. Some of these go like letters, with the postage required for us through to victory. pools are of porphyry stone and are most printed matter. "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our in firmities: for we know not what we should elaborate and beautiful. In showing you the You will be doing a re&l missionary service one in connection with st. John in Lateran, pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself if you respond to this request from our repre maketh intercession for us with groanings long in disuse but retained because of its sentatives on the foreign field. history, the custodian takes pleasure in tell which cannot be uttered. "And he that searcheth the hearts know ing you, "This is where Emperor Constantine ---------000~------- was baptized." eth what is the mind of the Spirit, because Pastor C. s. Maynard reports a successful he maketh intercession for the saints accord When Martin Luther made his protest and revival at the First Church; Bald Knob, June ing to the will of God" (Romans 8:26, 27>. led the Reformation, "he brought the ordi 13-23. There were seven additions to the nance of baptism and the Lord's Supper as church membership by baptism and two by practiced by the Roman Catholics into the ARKANSAS BAPTIST letter-all were adults. Pastor Joe B. Sullivan, 206 BAPTIST BUILDING, LITTLE ROCK new order. Other denominations springing up First Church, Earle, was the visiting evangel . Oftlclal Publication or the Arkansas Baptist after the Reformation, the English Episcop ist, concerning whom Pastor Maynard says, • B. H. DUNCAN- - - EDITOR acy under Henry the vm, Presbyterians un "He is a fearless, sincere, and profound MRS. LESLIE W. BUCHANAN .ED. ASST. Publication Committee: W H. Hicks, Little Rock, der Calvin, Methodists under Wesley, and preacher of the Gospel. He held up Christ as Cha.!rman; 0. C. Harvey, Arkadelphia; Wylie Elliott, others of lesser prominence since then, have the only hope of salvation for the lost, and in Paris; Boyd Eldridge Tyronza; R. M. Abell, Jasper; continued the practice of these ordinances spired the Christian people with the idealism Leroy Tedford, Coming. Entered Post Office, Little Rock, ArkaDSall, as sec as changed by the Roman Catholics. See of sacrificial service in the church and king ond class mall matter. Acceptance for maU!ng at Vedder's "History of Baptists." dom of our Lord." special rate of postage provided In Section 1198, October 1, 1913. As the author of "See These Banners Go," These services were the first to be held in Individual subscription $2.00 per year.