Another Unusuai, Circumstance.
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During a great meeting, in which over three
hundred sinners were converted, and a great
number of believers were sanctified wholly, I
encountered some so-called infidels. They at-
tacked the services and always wore a critical
cap. They were ever hungering and thirsting
after an argument. Argument was their "pillar
of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night;"
their meat and drink. They sought me for this
purpose, but I told them that I had no time to
waste upon them. I knew that argument, on
religious subjects especially, rarely convinces
either of the parties participating. Rev. M. W.
Knapp strongly impressed this upon his stu-
dents, often telling them, in those early days
of the Cincinnati Bible School, that "God never
called us to argue the Gospel, but He command-
ed us to go into all the world and preach it."
The mode of water baptism has been argued

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90 Thirty-three Years a Live Wire.
