Baptismal Remission by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1879

"Baptismal Remission."

By Editor

BECAUSE the Baptist denomination make baptism a pre-requisite to church communion, they are often accused of making too much of baptism,—of making it a saving ordinance, etc. The truth is they are one of the few denominations which are not open to this charge. All who urge the baptism of infants do so on the supposition that it brings them into "covenant relation" with Christ, and most of them openly teach that by baptism they are made "heirs of God," and "subjects of his kingdom." And even the Disciples, who strenuously repudiate the baptism of infants, as strenuously hold that baptism is a necessary pre-requisite to remission of sin,—that acceptance with God is impossible by faith before baptism. Eld. W. P. Throgmorton, editor of the Baptist Banner, Benton, Illinois, has published a pamphlet of 62 pages, with this title, combating this doctrine as held by the Disciples, a copy of which we have received. We understand it is well received by his denomination.