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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 6, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 8

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DOUBTS.

By James White

These are bad things. Many are in doubt as to their baptism. A hydropathic physician in this State has for ten years expressed regrets, (if not doubts,) as to the validity of his baptism because he was immersed by a man who afterwards proved himself to be a miserable, fanatical, dishonest, lustful hypocrite. Now two minutes at the water with a proper administrator is sufficient time to wash all such doubts away. And, certainly, such men should not hesitate to go into the water. This illustrates the case of hundreds I have seen who were troubled with doubts of this kind. But I have never seen a person who had been baptised under wrong circumstances doubt their second, if performed under favorable circumstances.
It is not sanctified caution that keeps persons from being fully relieved on this subject. It is pride and fear. True caution would lead them to make the matter sure.
Men of the world are truly cautious to get a good deed of real estate or to protect themselves against loss by fire. How much more important to secure a title to heavenly values, and guard with a double care against loss of heavenly treasures. This may all be said of ordination.
JAMES WHITE.
Greenville, Mich.