Trine Immersion by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 19, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 12.

Trine Immersion.

By Editor

A FRIEND who says he has "preached the 3d angil's mesiadge nearly 30 years in its purity and compleat," takes us to task for having written against trine immersion. The following illustration is unique, but it is on a par with most of the arguments of that class of theorists:—

"Now take three cups, fill them with water; if you can dip your finger into the three by one dipping I will exept your simple immersion."

Well, if John immersed the Saviour in three different rivers, or Philip immersed the eunuch in three different pools, then we accept the illustration; then there must have been three immersions. Or if Jesus died and was buried in Jerusalem, and in Nazareth, and in Jericho, then we will be immersed three times to be in the likeness of his death and resurrection. Rom. 6:1-5. But we think that dipping the finger in three cups of water is a wild illustration of being baptized into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. We are sorry that people will read our arguments with such a load of prejudice upon them.