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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 2.

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Little Baptism.

By Sword; Trowel

A GERMAN had been a Lutheran, and of course, was baptized in infancy. When asked the question, "Have you been baptized?" he answered curtly, "Vell, now, shust a leetle!"
We conceive that the "leetle" fails to answer the end of baptism, for it is neither the sign which the Saviour ordained, nor does it set forth the truth which baptism was intended to embody. Between sprinkling and immersion there is a radical difference, and if either of the two be right the other must be wrong. The two ceremonies cannot be optional and equally right, for by no measure of straining can they be made emblems of the same thing. We have no right to supplant Christ's "much water" by man's "leetle," and he who does so must answer for it to his Lord.— Sword and Trowel.