The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, April 11, 1878, Image 2
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FOXt THE PICKENS SENTINEL.
MR. EnrroR: When I comnenced
to read the eriticism on the article I
wrote in reference to the translation
of the Scriptures, I really thought it
had been put up by a man who had
nmde pcrver-siot) A science, but it
w 4s sigm d by the Rev. A. W. W alki
el, one of our meek and - humble
teachers ct the word 'f God. fie
would not intentionaly isiirepresenit,
but only 111isok one t 1Mng for al
IA lther-let is be as forgiving as the
"atne' of tie case " ill admit. Ile
ynge to know why I ientiored
Witkliffe nud Tyndal as Baptisti?
Well, I simply nean't to give the
religious proclivities of the iren of
whom I was writing as it occurred
to my mmin they were imneriEonist,
(probably Tyndal was an Episcopk
ist.) I nieant nothing more.
W by does lie say 1 "strangely con
funded the drunken ministers with
the eminently wise and pious trans
laturs." 1 think the conl usion must
have 13een altogether in the reader's
huead. I never supposed that any
one thought that translator, minister
~and frieuid, meant one and the same
*- thing. But bow else make this con
fusion. This reminds me though,
that thousands of people make as
great mistakes as this, in covfoundaq
ing the meaning of the words sprin
* kie, pour and dip. Now in my hum
ble opinion, these three words, as
well as the three mnitioned above,
eacli and all haveta special and spe
cifie meaning of its own. To give
- supli a protusion of meanings to our
words as some do, would render it
* ufiicient to give evideq~ce in court?
Suppose we take the words faith,
love en~d belief, and add to them a
great 'profusion of meanings, what
w~ofild become of the Scriptures, and
why claini some few words have so
.znany. meanings and others only onae.
* He wnts me /to prove that all
4fi.pee ihisters (state officia) wore
pygfisgatp. "The prime leaders of
his government were youthful favo
rites, who possessed no0 merits but
passonal ~eloquence. Experienced
el~esmen, brave soldiere and leatrIed
dilvinesehad to bow to th'ese dissolute
nbttk !f they wished to advance in
poyal favor.: Even Bacon, the nob
14it'sliedt of the age--had to at
-tqib himself to the minion Duke of
du~inglm, for the sam.p purpose.
TA~is is from Prescott's Encyclopedia.
fa~caul ay agrees pretty closely with
tItie, much stranger on James' weak,
ness at other points, he represete
bgas saying to fiis Paliament "that
they hallI no more business to inquire
-~a 'h A4ight' lawfully do, than
hiat tio. pety1 might law fully do.
RB~alib Was represented in Jim
,?stammerbeg, 'Slobbering, shedding
'nnmanly ters, tremblingt ia'dawn
8wErd etc." Tytler andW Wilson ini
same thing, inn ion the 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 duly 4o so by crouch
ing to these debaudhed youths, and
first class nien, 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, qnd
from some of the light, good Lord!
deliver us.
In less than thirty years atter the
translation, doubtless while som1e of
the translators still lived, Marcus
Wilson in his out lines of history
says: "The- English cleigy- at the
head of whom was Arch bishop Laud,
one of the chief advisers of thetKing
(Charles) usurped the civil powers of
the government, and the Puritans
were eo rigorously persecuted that
great unumbers of them soughlit an
asylum in Atnerica-drove the Scot
tish Preysbyteriians to open rebel
lion, etc." Macaulay says "the de
votions of private families could not.
escal e his spies " They increased
the power of the two courts, that of
the Star Chamber and H igh Cow
nissiun, two of the mloi-t iLfamous
proba-bly the civilized world has any
account ot, "The Puritans or church
reformers suffered n ost. ' hey were
dragged in great numbers before an
arbitrary court, called the Star
Chamber, and sometimes men ven
erable for piety, learning and worth,
were scourgedthirough the streets of
London, and had their ears cut off,
and teir noses split for merely dif
tering in opinion on the most specus
lat ive of all subjects, with the King
anid his clergy." See Prescott's En
cyclopedia, Dazzling light again,
and it in the churches.
Whby do aien laud the wisdom,
piety and elightenment of this
age so muchiIs it because of the ar
bitr ary power asau med by the church
office rs? The chburches 80 called were
governed by fanaticism and in a
c~fnetant revolutionary state. Is it
at all reasonable to suppose the men
of that nge were unprejudiced? We
are tanght the reverse most uinques
tionably. In ,the days of this big
oted Land, thme established church of
England and the Catholic church res
seumbled very much, were in pretty
close alliance.
About this time the Westniinister
divines are said to have adopted
pouring or sprinkling instead of im
mersion. England had some able
n en intellectually, but she had a
weak Kinmg to bind their hands in
many particulars; iri laying down.
certain rules, oe.
I said in my article that no Lexi
con on earth gave baptize as thme de
finition of baptizo; and published a
card the. next week qualifying this
statement ini this way. "I do not
believe there was pne that so gpive it,
as I had never seen one that did, etc.'>
The Rekv. 'Mr. Walker makes me
say that no Lexicographer in the
universe gives the same meanining
to the word baptizo as to that of
baptize. 18 this a fair statement, oven
if the'iov'enoid gentlemuan had not
seen my- card?
For my part, mly side of any ques-.
tion may sink before I will prop it
by aen unfair dtatement of an oppon
ent. it is not necessary to see all
tbc Dictionaries to ascertain the de
finition of a word, they, as well as
histories, ttnd men of sense, are sin
gularly ngeed a to tho mrimnry i. e
fiet 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 Stee adople one,
another a eecond, and the General
Governiment a third, we would have
virtually another Babel scene,. in
short order.
The Rev. Mr. Walker gives some
of Jame' rules to govern the trans
"aion. Tier e was no use in wasting
paper with rides, it matters not bow
wise or unobjectionablo, 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 text would al
low; this seetms to imply that he
would just as sdon vary from the
original as frrom the Bishop's.
The Rev. Mr. Walker thinks the
translation )y the Bible Union shows
"ectarianisn, rediculousness and
bigotry."
Tbis is some of his quotations
trom the Bible Union Company. "In
those days came John the immerser."
Let's try this with his word, which is
also his act, i. e. pour or sprinkle, it
would read thus: In thifse days came
John the pouier, this would be do-.
lectable, again he quotes. "I inde
im mocrse you in water unto re 1-,
iane," pit inl hi word again. in
deed spanikle youpt inl waif!r' to
lenta nco. Christ went i1to be %ler
and gave an illustration o thi$ ordi.
n1ance; t hiis stranger t in linguage
can manake it. Trn - through your
I estaments and sul.6titute sprin
kle fur batptize in every place w heap
this wold occurs, and yon will drop
the idea of this imaking sense. There
is no doubt in my imud about jm
inerEe being the proper word. I can
riot believe the Dictionrisai of the
Greek langiuge an.d the church his
toriars who have recorded their
evidence for nearly fifteen centuries
(and 6omC of them for eighteen) arc
unreliable. I learn from very good
authority th at t here were somet eighit
or nine denomtiInat ions assisted in t he
work of the Ame-icani Bible Unions'
Company. Who shows most big
otry, the man .who is governed by
the authorities, or the man who do
Ses all antbority.
Do you,Sir, presume to brand with
bigotry, Calvin, Luther, Wesley, S.
Clark, Baxter, W hit field, Coney bear
and Blowson, Schaff Spanbeimn, A.
Clark and many other great lights,
all in reiing to Romans vi and-4th,
say it was most certainly immersion
in water referecd to there. Tres are
all Pedobaptist authors. The great
host of church historians of eaclp and
eveny denoiminatiou, for fifteen cen
turies, believ'ed this word meant im
mferse. Wesley came to A mericai an
immersionist. Men have ot r'ead
much church history. who say, none
but th~e conceited Baptist believe this.
lImmersion may not be essential to
salvation, but truth is. I respect
good and wise teachers and preach
ers as much as I ought to, I hope; but
advise all to beware of pinning their
faitb too tightly to man.
We have known a great many to
fall short of what they had long becen
rated at, some under excitement
bhtve donned tho cock ade, huirried
thiueigh bore into revolutions
and war, deserted thern at once,
many Bsuch things, and even worse
they some~ times do. In imitation of
Rome some of the divines appeal to
the vanity of muan to influence t hem
against iml!mersion as establishted by
Christ, teach the people it is in
decenut, t hue impeach Christ with
filthiness. W hy not desert a cause
if it can only stand kraiced by sutch
arguments?
I will say to the Rev. Mr. McLees
that I have seen one other of the
Lexicons he' refered to, quoted i. o.
John Pickering's thu"s--baptizo, dip,
immnerse, etc., wet, soaked in win0
to dlrufkenneiss. over'whelm~ wi