Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — THE PASTORS' COLUTIN. [ARTICLE]

THE PASTORS' COLUTIN.

[Under .this head extracts from "the -Sunday sermons of the various pastors of-tin Rsmswlaer churches will be published each week from copy furnished us.J Who are the Baptists and what do -they believe? Sermon preached by fiev, W -O.tFritts, Sunday night. Text, Acts, 17:^8This is no new doctrine. Hasheim“the origin of the Baptists is hid in the remote depths of antiquity. X. Baptists take the Bible alone with wo mandatory Articles of Faith. The aritrlrs we have are suggestive. 2. Baptists believe in Regeneration hefote church membership. 5. Baptists believe in one baptism and that is immersion. It is.natto -save men but-shows they are already saved. We demand proof that needed to he baptized to he saved. Fo Haiti st scholar ever admitted that any other mode than immersion ever was taught in the Sihte. 4. Baptists believe in the great commission agent has visited Potto Rico and Dam has baptized 40 converts in Hsw ware the close of the late star. 6. We believe the Bible tithe Supreme auditor in all disputes, and that it Harr safer gregational and we. ham no orders m the mis-. iatry. the Chicago University. Our minister* toe subjected to a rigid -examination before they are ordained Xu gaaaeh. There are4,d»,»imßw4imriHfWn Wminawu order in the United States aadOaßadbL.