A Baptism Interrupted by a Horse

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 14, 1874

A Baptism Interrupted by a Horse

When the hospital was out of the city far up town, the late Rev. Wm. Parkinson, of this city, had twenty-one candidates to baptize, and about one thousand people assembled to witness what was then a novel scene. A man attempted to disturb the solemnity of the occasion by riding his horse into the water, as one of the candidates was led in; but the horse, as if aware of the impropriety, threw the rider into the water and walked out, trotting away, while the ceremony was completed without further interruption.