THE CHURCH VERSUS THE SCRIPTURES.
The Pulpit of the Cross, a High Church Episcopal paper, published at Omaha, Nebraska, has a series of articles on "The Errors of the Baptists Concerning Baptism." In article number 3 it makes the following candid statement:— "It is necessary here, as in the case of the observance of Sunday instead of Saturday as the day of rest, to look to 'the church, the pillar and ground of the truth,' for full authority and knowledge as to what is proper and lawful. The Baptists can not justify their position in the observance of Sunday rather than Saturday, except by an appeal to church history, consequently there are a considerable number of Seventh-day or Sabbath-observing Baptists whose arguments can not be met successfully by the regular Baptists from their premise of the Bible as the only authority. . . . . We therefore appeal to this same authority, the church, for ascertaining the mode of baptism, and she has ruled that immersion, pouring, or sprinkling of water upon the person in the name of the Trinity, is truly Christian baptism." And if this be so, why not admit all that Rome claims, and ignore the Scriptures altogether? Is it the Word of God or tradition? Is it God or man? See Matt. 15: 1-7.