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Nine lines.is 'a square one Inch, In every instance we charge by ae sppeeocupied, as eight or ten -lipes gn be s1if to ocoupy four or five squa'es, as nbe atyergser may wish, and is charged by the AdvettIsers will please state the num bor Qf squares they wish their advertisements to make. uslness men who advertise to be bq Otted, will bear in mind that the MMItNE L has a large and increasing cir eulation,,and is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desire. FORt THE PICKENS SENTINEL. MR. EDITOR: When I commenced to read the criticism on the article I wrote in reference lo the translation of the Scriptures, I reaillS thought it bad been ppt up by a inan who had inade perversion a science, but It w8a signt d by thq Rev. A. W. W aIk. er, one of our meek and - humble teachers ct the word 'f God. Ile would not intentionaly mgrepresenut, but only mistoIk ne n1di g for an 6ther-let us be as forgiving as Le tnstrie of the case *Aill admit. 11e wsmi&'B to know why I mentiourd Witkliffe and 'iyidal as Baptisti Well I simply nean't to give the religious proelivities of the men of whoim I was writing as it occurred to my mind they were irmnersonist, (probably Tyndal was an EpiscopA liar.) I neant nothing m1or-. W hy does he say 1 "strangely con f'munded the drunken ministers with the eminently wise anid pious tranR lato~rs." 1 t bink the confusion must hlave igen altogether in the reauder's head. 1 never su posed that any one thought that translator, minister and frica~d, meant one and the same thing. But how else make this con fusion. This reminds me though, Ithat thousands of people make as great mistakes as this, in confoundw ing tjie meaning of the words sprin kile, pour and dip. Now in my him ble opinion, these three words, as well as the three mentioned above, each and all havea special and spe cifi meaning of its own. To give sup1. a profusion of meanings to out' words as some do, would render it JpqpflicIent to give eviderpe in court? Buppose we take the words faith, love and belief, and add to them a great 'profusion of meanings, what w~oi1Id become-of the Scriptures, and why ctairri some few words have so .*unany melanings and others only onie. * He wants me ,to prove that all Mane tpiliisters (state offlesaiB) were proffljgate. "bThe prime leaders of is government were youthful favo ritps, wh possessed no merits but ,pessonal eloquence. Experienced * 1.Mesmen, bravo sold ieri and learzned idiines,had to bow to th'ese dissolute' 72nthe If "they wished to advance in ioyal favor.: Even Bacon, the nub.. gaf it'ilect of the jge.-had to' tt lach' hfimself to the minion Duke of $uiuight'm, for the samp purpose. This is from Prescott's Encyclopedia. facaulay agreeni pretty closely with tilie, much stranger on James' weak, neSS at other points, hIepresonts lig assaying to Flis Parliament "that they blii no more businlessto in~qu ire -lNh .b-4night lawfully do, than .aIat to.e pety might lawfully do. .Roalb was represented in Aim 4fammering, "plobbering, sliedding .timanly tears, trembl~ing~ ad*awn saqprd, etc." Tytler an' Wilon in their histories are not fr fr.m .a same thing, iatn ion tho weakness of tb King, and some of his ministers as dissolute. I now say what I did not say before, that. the logical infer-. ence is that no first class men would have got on that board of translators, for they could dnly 4o so by crouch ing to these debaudhed youths, and first class Wden, would hardly do this? My histories do not teach that the transfators were eminently pious, the infereice from Rev. Mr. Walker's statement is that each and all were such. He makes me say it was in a dark age. Now the word dark did not occur in my article, he surely did not mean to misreptesent mis takes revolutionary for dark-I hope he has better luck in interpreting tbe Scriptures than when criticising my article.-I am not at all afraid to say now, that there was some dark, and from some of the light, good Lord! deliver us. In less than thirty years after the translation, doubtless while some of the translators still lived, Marcus Wilson in his out lines of history says: "The- English cleigy; at the head of whom was Archbishop Laud, one of the chief advisers of the"King (Charles) usirped the civil powers of the government, and the Puritans were so rigorously perseented that great numbeus of themI songlt an asylum in America-drove the Scot tish Preysbyterians to open rebel lion, etc." Macaulay mays "the de votions of private families could not escal e his spies " The increased the power of the two courts, that ot the Star Chamber and H igh Cow ImFsiil, two of the m1ost itiamous probably the civilized world has any account of, "The Put hans or church reformers suffered nost. T hey were dragged in great numbers before an arbitrary court, caled the Star Chamber, anld sometimes men ven erable for piety, learning and worth, were sc'9u rgedthrough the streets of London, and had their ears cut off, and tlieir noses split for merely dif fering in opinion on the most speens lam ive of all subjects, with the King and his clergy." See Prescott's En cycloped ia, Dazzling light again, and it in the churches. Whby do anen land the wisdom, piety and elightenment of this age so much? Is it because of the ar bitrary power asaumed by the church office re? The churches so called were governed by fanaticism and in a conatant revolutionmary state. Is it at all reasonable to suppose the -men of that age wvere unprejudiced? We are taught the reverse anost unuques tionab~ly. In the days of this big oted Laud, the established church of England and the Catholic church res semubled very much, were in pretty close alliance. About this time the Westniinister divines are said to have adopted pouring or sprinklin'g instead of im mersion. England bad some able nien intellectually, but she had a weak King to" bind their hands in many particulars; in laying down. certain rules, etc. I said in. my article that no Lexi-. con on earth gave baptize as the de finitmon of baptizo; and publ'ished a card the. znext week qualifying this statement in this way. "I' do not belikve there w as one tlaat so gtv it, as Ilhad never seen one tbat did. etc.'" The Rlk. 'Mr. Walker makes me say that no ,Lexicographer in thue unmiverse gives the sarne meanining to the womd' baptizo as to that of baptize. Is this a fair statemenut, even if the oveeid gentlemuan had not seen my- card? For my part, mly side ofany ques tion may sinkc beA~rn I, will prop it by sn unfair etatemnent of an oppon ent. it, is not ' ecessary to see all the Dictionaries to ascertain the de flait ion- of a word, they, as well as histories, tand men of sense, are sin gularly agreed as to thb primna 1. o Ifieet chief, original principal, etc., meanings of wojds, were it other wise, the human language would be an enigma. If each had a definition of its own, and one Stte adopte one, another a second, aud the General Government a third, we would bve virtually another Babel scene,. in i short order. The Rev. Mr. Walker" gives some I of James' rules to govern the trans Iaion. There was no use in wasting paper with rules, it matters not how wise or unobjectionable, after the first one, which bound them, not to translate certain ecclesiastical word.; and to follow the Bishop's translation as far as the original teKt would al low; this seems to imply that he i would just as soon vary from the original au from the Bishop's. The Rev. Mr. Walker thinks the translation by the Bible Union shows "4ectarianisn, rediculousluess and bigotry." This is 'some of his quotations from the Bible Union Company. "Inl those days caine John tho immerser." Let's try this with his word, which is also his act, i. e. pour or sprinkle, it would read thus: In tho'e days came John the pouier', this would be de. lectable, again he quotes. "I inde ill morse you in water unto re ni ance," put inl his word again. inl deed spriike you il wai(!r to - penlance. Christ went into be ver and gave an illustration o thiI ordi.. niance; thiisis stranger t in lnguage cant make it. Turn tlrough your eSt aml) ents and sul 6titute sprin kle for baptize in every place w hea this woId occurs, and on will drop the idea of this miaking sense. There n is no doubt in my mind about imn neree being the proper word. I can A not believe tho Dictionaries of the Greek languige an.d the church his toriafs who have recorded their evidence for nearly fifteen centiries (an d some of them for eighteen) are unrleliable. I.learn from very good authority that therv were some eight or nIinie denmina~Itio0ns astsisted inf the work of the American Bible Unions' Company. Who shows most big otry, the man .who is governed by the authorities, or' the man who de Ses all authority. Do you, Sir', pr'esume to brand with bigotry, Calvin, Luther, Wesley, S.4 Clark, Baxter, W hitfield, Coney bear1 and Ilowson, Schaff Spanheim, A. Clark and many other great lights, all in reering to Romans vi and' 4th, say it was most certainly immersion ini water referecd to there. Tleese arc all Pedobaptist authors. The great host of church historians of eacl) and evemy denomiination, for fifteen cen tur'ies, believed this word meant ims merse. Wesley camne to A merica an iLInmersionist. Men have iot read much church history, who say, none but the conceited Baptist believe this. Immersion may not be essential to salvation, but truth is. I respect good and wise teachers and preach e as much as I ought to, I hope;.but advise all to beware of pinning their faith too tightly to man. We have known a great many to fall short of what they had long beeni rated at, some under excitement hdv'e donned the cock ade, hurried tl'ieir ~neighbors into revolutions and war, deserted them at once, many such .thinigs, and even worse they some times do. Jn imitation ot Rome some of the divines appeal to' the vanity of man to influence them against immrs'ion as estaiblished by Chis nt, teachi the people it is in-. decent, thus impeach Christ with filthiness. Why not desert a cause if it can. only stand %raced by such argu ments? I will say to the Rev. Mr'. McLees that I have seen one other of the Lexicons he' refered to, quoted i. e. Joh in Pieker itng's thus--baptizo, dip, immerse, etc., wet, soaked in Wine to drunkenniess, overwhelm wth~