A Significant Paragraph.
By W. C. G.
We clip the following from the Watchman and Reflector, of Boston, the leading organ of the Baptist denomination: Dr. Guthrie, speaking of the exit of the Presbyterian church from Rome, says, “Three hundred years ago, our church, with an open Bible on her banner, and this motto, “Search the Scriptures,” on her scroll, marched out from the gates of Rome.” Then he significantly asks, “Did they come clean out of Babylon?” The same question is pertinent to all the pedo-baptist denominations. And we may add, to all other denominations who retain any of the unscriptural customs and practices of the “mother of harlots.” While our Baptist friends have certainly made a long and bold stride toward the door of exit from Babylon by their position on the question of baptism, they still linger within her portals, and rest lovingly in her embraces, by following Papal authority in Sunday-keeping instead of God’s law in the observance of his Sabbath. If an error on the subject of baptism be sufficient to entangle a church within the habiliments of Popery, what shall we say of those who are so blinded as to disobey one of God’s ten immutable precepts?
W. C. G.