Devoted to the Propagation and Defense of New Testament Christianity
VOLUME 19
September 14, 1967
NUMBER 19, PAGE 9b

Rat Poison

Pryde E. Hinton

On page 105 of the Gospel Guardian, June 15, 1967, Brother Billy W. Moore, in a very good article, says: ("I am not charging that Boles Home, Tennessee Orphan Home, etc., are teaching Baptist doctrine, or Methodist doctrine, ...") Well, Brother Moore, I am charging that all of these brethren who build and support such homes are not only teaching Baptist and Methodist doctrines, but practicing them, also.

If Galatians 6:10 and James 1:27 do not teach that churches of Christ may set up human organizations for the purpose of providing homes for such needy persons, these brethren have no Scriptural authority to establish them and support them. These are the Scriptures they almost invariably refer to or quote, to prove that churches of Christ can scripturally establish such human organizations in addition to the churches themselves.

It's true that these brethren do not teach sprinkling for baptism, nor infant baptism, nor "once in grace, always in grace." But then neither do the Baptist teach or practice either sprinkling for baptism or infant baptism, etc.; nor do the Methodist teach the impossibility of apostasy, etc. Most, or much, of their doctrines are good and Scriptural.

But somebody has said that rat poison is about 90 percent good food. But we all know what happens to him who eats that good food, don't we?