Jon Gary Williams
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A. C. Grider (Harriman, Tennessee) vs F. L. Ray (Missionary Baptist)
April 6, 1950
Willette, Tennessee
(By Frank D. Young)
February 28 - March 3. At Willette, Tennessee, on plan of salvation.
Crowds were very large and people stood throughout for four days. By means of radio, debates and other ways the Baptist preachers are so stirred up in Macon County and surrounding territory that they are challenging everybody and everything. It's most unusual for a Baptist preacher challenge for a debate. (They debate in Churches of Christ, Court Houses, but never in a Baptist house). Many have been baptized in recent months as a result of such work. Ten Baptists were baptized one day in Macon County.
The debate was Bro. Grider's third in this section with the same people. Others are to be soon. Bro. Grider knows the truth and is not afraid to defend it. In this debate with Mr. Ray, he used a chart contrasting the Bible and Baptist doctrine on baptism. The charts were unanswered, and people could see the differences. All Baptist preachers in this country have the same material. They have the same daddy, Mr. Calvin Gregory of Lafayette. Their pet expression is: "you've made a god out of water and a savior out of baptism." Then they talk much about God in the baptistery; and when the baptistery is drained, God is left out. Of course, according to their line-up of argument, when the baptistery is drained the Baptist Church is gone. But they care not what they say, just so it is opposed to truth. Some are seeing the truth in these debates. May God have mercy on those in error, and may the truth be glorified.
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