2107.—Place of Baptism
By Editor
Do Seventh-day Adventists allow their people to make a pool back of their pulpits in their churches for the practise of artificial baptism? J. G. H. We do not know what our querist means by "artificial baptism." We should hardly think that artificial baptism would need a pool. Does he mean that when the rite is performed in a pool it must be artificial? Most Seventh-day Adventist churches have baptistries, and generally under the pulpits, because they can be arranged there better than anywhere else. When filled with water, of course these form pools for that purpose. Baptism is just as truly baptism, however, if performed in a pool or river or lake or sea. All of the baptisms around Jerusalem were performed in pools. There are no running streams in that vicinity all the year round, save the channels which had been formed for the purpose of supplying the city with water. To these pools the New Testament makes frequent reference.