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Tuesday, December 17, for four days, Willette, Macon County, Tennessee.

Bro. Beasley affirmed: "The scriptures teach that faith, repentance, and baptism are conditions of pardon to the alien sinner, baptism being for (in order to) the remission of past or alien sins; and as Naaman was cleansed from leprosy while buried the seventh dip, so a person is saved from sin while buried with his Lord in baptism." Elder Massey agreed that the sinner must hear the gospel, and asked: "How can he hear without a preacher?" Massey said the sinner must believe, then repent, and at the end of repentance he must have that trusting faith, and then be baptized because he was already a child of God.

Massey affirmed: "The scriptures teach that the repenting sinner must pray for the remission of sins, and expect to receive it in answer to prayer, through faith, before he is baptized." Bro. Beasley so readily met him on every point that it was easy to see that the audience, both black and white, realized Massey's defeat.

The debate was well attended and good order. This was Bro. Beasley's twenty-fourth debate and he handled his opponent well. I moderated for Bro. Beasley and preached two sermons and baptized one. I think much good was done in this debate."


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