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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 23, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 12.

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To Correspondents.

GEO. KENNEDY: We claim that the arguments of the Dunkards for trine immersion are not good, nor their conclusions legitimate. If the fact that Christ “bowed his head” in death is their reason for the forward plunge, why do they bow their bodies? Christ did not bow his body on the cross; and according to their reasoning they ought to go into water so deep, that they would go under by simply bowing the head. We say that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are alike honored, by the one act, and the use of the formula prescribed by Christ.
There is nothing in the language to indicate three acts. The Father is represented and honored in this miniature resurrection because he is the author of all life; the Son, because it is by his intervention that the resurrection is accomplished; and the Holy Ghost, because it is from that we receive the principle which quickens our mortal bodies. But by no one of these alone is the resurrection accomplished, as should be the case, if we are to perform a separate act for and in each name.
It is Christ’s burial and resurrection that is represented by baptism, not his bowing his head in death; and we would fain believe that our Lord was laid out decently upon his back in Joseph’s new tomb; and this position should be imitated by the candidate in baptism.
J. B. ALEXANDER: For an explanation of the Two Witnesses, Rev. 11, see “Thoughts on the Revelation.”
J. P. LOGAN: The heresy of the non-resurrection of the wicked is fully exposed by Bro. Waggoner’s pamphlet on the “Resurrection of the Unjust,” published at this Office. It would be well for you to procure some and circulate in your neighborhood.
W. H. CLARK: There is no authority for saying that “after eight days,” John 20 : 26, means just a week and falls on the next Sunday. The expression of this nature which the Bible uses to denote a week is “after seven days.” Compare 1 Chron. 9 : 25 with 2 Kings 11 : 5.
J. E. GREEN: See answer to your inquiry as to what would constitute a missionary letter, such as should be reported in the T. & M. work, in article on that subject in this number.

ANSWERED BY LETTER.

S. A. Lindsley, Geo. Leighton, J. A. Robinson, N. M. Jordan, E. O. Hammond.