Baptists and Instrumental Music

By William V. Beasley In his book, Church Manual Designed For The Use Of Baptist Churches, J. M. Pendleton presents a beautiful, scriptural argument which, when consistently applied shows that mechanical instruments of music in worship to God is wrong. In writing of the truth that baptism is for penitent believers only Mr. Pendleton says, “It …

Speaking Out with All Boldness

By Bruce Edwards, Jr. When the apostle Paul arrived in Athens and beheld the city “full of idols,@ the record says that “his spirit was provoked within him.” The import of this statement is that when the apostle witnessed the outrageous and sinful presence of idolatry in the city, he could not sit idly by and …