ThE popular, ease-loving professors of the day abound in arguments (!) against scripture methods and doctrines, nine-tenths of which are based on convenience. "Oh yes, the Sabbath is right, but it isn't convenient to keep a day so different from all other people." This is about the only objection against the Sabbath truth which cannot be fairly met and removed from the way, and as it is really an argument for the truth, we prefer to let it stand.
There are also many other duties enjoined upon Christians which may be made inconvenient if they so choose, and among these duties is the ordinance of baptism. It looks exceedingly strange to some people that a few will persist in following the example of the Master by going "down into the water," when it is so much more convenient to just wet the tip of the finger and moisten the forehead, not even soiling the most delicate laces and embroideries. But the latest novelty in the theological world is the fact that the pedo-baptists have found a refuge in one of the fox-holes of Israel's latter-day prophets namely, the Arctic regions. We have all heard the plea that the seventh day cannot be kept in that locality, therefore Christians everywhere should keep the first day; and now a writer in a late number of the Congregationalist comes out against immersion because the water freezes over, in the region round the north pole, and it would be very difficult to practice the ordinance in that manner. The next thing we shall look for, will be the declaration that the gospel never was intended for the Arctic regions, because any one would freeze to death in attempting to preach it there.