The following summary is given by the Christian Commonwealth as the views of the late Dean Stanley on the subject of baptism:— 1. Immersion was wisely selected, not only because it was a “most delightful, ordinary, and salutary observance,” but because it was significantly expressive of the design of baptism. 2. The word which Christ used to express baptism is literally translated immersion. 3. Christ himself was immersed. 4. The apostles uniformly practised immersion. 5. Immersion was the invariable practise of the primitive church. 6. It was the almost universal practise of Christians for thirteen centuries. 7. When the substitution of sprinkling for immersion began to find favor, it was stoutly resisted as an innovation. 8. Even in some of the cold countries (Russia, for instance), the innovation has been up to the present time successfully resisted. 9. Immersion, “even in the Church of England, is still observed in theory. Elizabeth and Edward VI were both immersed. The Rubric in the Public Baptism for infants enjoins that, unless for special causes, they are to be dipped, not sprinkled.” 10. The change from immersion to sprinkling is greater than that which the Roman Catholic Church has made in administering the sacrament of the Lord’s supper in the bread without the wine.—Selected.