Immersion and Biblical Ignorance
By Editor
In the Christian Advocate of July 21, a certain Rev. J. W. Simpson says:— "We admit immersion to be one mode of baptism, and yet can recall at present only four examples of it in the Scriptures. The first is the deluge; the second, that of Pharaoh's army; the third the case of a man, the leper, who was so exceedingly foul that we are not surprised that it took the whole of Jordan to cleanse him; and the fourth was that of a herd of swine which ran violently down a steep place into the sea and perished in the waters." As a display of downright egotistical ignorance we have never seen that surpassed. Nor is that all. His reference to the swine as an example of baptism is contemptible, and his reference to the case of Naaman is basely irreverent.