p. 144 | Baptize-Immerse by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 23, 1882

Baptize—Immerse.

By Editor

The N. Y. Independent has done as valiant work as any paper with which we are acquainted, to prove that immersion was not the practice of the early church, and that immersion is not at all necessary to the act of gospel baptism. But in an article on the action of the American Bible Society, which may be found on the fourth page of this paper (page 136), it effectually demolishes all its former work, so far as the meaning of baptizo is concerned. Except a few expressions, no thorough-going Baptist could do better. Indeed, the article may do better service than if it came from a Baptist author. We hope every reader of the SIGNS will give it careful attention.