wicked ways and walk in newness of life. This brings repentance, a for-
saking of sin, a reverence for Almighty God and an earnest desire to
search after and serve Him in spirit and in truth. We resolve to tread
the path our Savior walked, down into the waters of baptism, thus follow
ing Him down through the door into the Kingdom of God, that where He is
we may be also. Sufficient mental capacity to be taught, to believe,
to repent and to voluntarily offer ones self for obedience to the suc-
ceeding principle of the Gospel are prerequisites to the ordinance of
baptism. Little children cannot do these things, consequently there is
no law of God requiring them to be baptised; and all man-made systems
to the contrary will be null and void in the day of judgment.

MODE OF BAPTISM.

As there are so ma^n^y conflicting opinions on this question; the
orthodox Christian churches having departed from the faith of the
Apostles, and built up churches to themselves for the purpose of making
merchandise of the souls of men, have instituted the practice of sprin-
kling and pouring &c. and call it baptism, to support which not one
word can be found in holy Writ. The whole sense of the ordinance of
baptism from the time that John the Baptist came preaching the baptism
of repentance for the remission of sins, on through all the writings of
the New Testament conclusively proves the fact that baptism by immers-
ion was the mode taught and practiced by Jesus and His Apostles. [Matthew 3:1-2] Jesus,
when He was baptized, "Went up straightway out of the water." [Matthew 3:16] When
Phillip baptized the Eunuch "They went down both into the water, both
Phillip and the Eunuch, and he baptized him, and when they were come up
out of the water, &c" [Acts 8:38-39] All this clearly indicates immersion, or why go
down into or come up out of the water? Paul says to the Romans 4, 4;
"Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death" 5th, "For if
we have been planted together in the likeness of His death." Certainly
there is nothing in a sprinkling or a pouring that represents either a
burial or a planting, but each of these passages point in Unmistakable
terms to a baptism by immersion. The Apostle Paul again makes this clear
in his Episitle to the Collosians 2, 12; "Buried with Him in baptism
wherein also ye are risen with Him." When John baptized in the wilder-
ness "There went out unto him all the land of Judea and they of Jeru-
salem, and were all baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing
their sins." (Mark 1, 5)

All the evidence contained in the sacred Scriptures points unmis-
takably to the fact that immersion was the only mode of baptism practic-
ed by the Apostles and early Christians. Profane history gives con-
clusive evidence of this fact. Speaking of baptism in the first cen-
tury Dr. Mosheim says "In this century baptism was administered in con-
venient places without the public assemblies, and by immersing the can-
didate wholly in water." (Mosheim's Church History (Murdock) Third
Edition, Vol. 1, p. 87) Of the second century, the same great author
says: "Twice a year, namely at Easter and Whitsuntine, baptism was
administered by the Bishop or by the presbyters acting by his command
and authority. The candidates for it were immersed wholly in water with
the invocation of the sacred Trinity, according to the Savior's precept."

Indeed, the first deviation from baptizing by immersion occurs in
a case recorded by Eusebius, as happening in the third century. He alludes

wicked ways and walk in newness of life. This brings repentance, a forsaking of sin, a reverence for Almighty God and an earnest desire to search after and serve Him in spirit and in truth. We resolve to tread the path our Savior walked, down into the waters of baptism, thus follow ing Him down through the door into the Kingdom of God, that where He is we may be also. Sufficient mental capacity to be taught, to believe, to repent and to voluntarily offer ones self for obedience to the succeeding principle of the Gospel are prerequisites to the ordinance of baptism. Little children cannot do these things, consequently there is no law of God requiring them to be baptised; and all man-made systems to the contrary will be null and void in the day of judgment.

MODE OF BAPTISM.

As there are so many conflicting opinions on this question; the orthodox Christian churches having departed from the faith of the Apostles, and built up churches to themselves for the purpose of making merchandise of the souls of men, have instituted the practice of sprinkling and pouring &c. and call it baptism, to support which not one word can be found in holy Writ. The whole sense of the ordinance of baptism from the time that John the Baptist came preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, on through all the writings of the New Testament conclusively proves the fact that baptism by immersion was the mode taught and practiced by Jesus and His Apostles. Jesus, when He was baptized, "Went up straightway out of the water." When Phillip baptized the Eunuch "They went down both into the water, both Phillip and the Eunuch, and he baptized him, and when they were come up out of the water, &c" All this clearly indicates immersion, or why go down into or come up out of the water? Paul says to the Romans 4, 4; "Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death" 5th, "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death." Certainly there is nothing in a sprinkling or a pouring that represents either a burial or a planting, but each of these passages point in Unmistakable terms to a baptism by immersion. The Apostle Paul again makes this clear in his Epistle to the Collosians 2, 12; "Buried with Him in baptism wherein also ye are risen with Him." When John baptized in the wilderness "There went out unto him all the land of Judea and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins." (Mark 1, 5)

All the evidence contained in the sacred Scriptures points unmistakably to the fact that immersion was the only mode of baptism practiced by the Apostles and early Christians. Profane history gives conclusive evidence of this fact. Speaking of baptism in the first century Dr. Mosheim says "In this century baptism was administered in convenient places without the public assemblies, and by immersing the candidate wholly in water." (Mosheim's Church History (Murdock) Third Edition, Vol. 1, p. 87) Of the second century, the same great author says: "Twice a year, namely at Easter and Whitsuntine, baptism was administered by the Bishop or by the presbyters acting by his command and authority. The candidates for it were immersed wholly in water with the invocation of the sacred Trinity, according to the Savior's precept."

Indeed, the first deviation from baptizing by immersion occurs in a case recorded by Eusebius, as happening in the third century. He alludes