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 By 236 illustrations, selected from sn- cient and pstristic literature, he proves that the word never had any other mean ing. Polybius, Plutarcb, Aristotle, Dio- dorus, Josephus, Epictetus, Chrysostom. Plotinus, Clement of Alexandria, Justin Martyr, Philo-these, with all others who ever knew the Greek language, and used this Greek word, freely sustain this meaning, and only this. The reputable scholarship of the world to-day grants ungrudgingly the point for which Bap- tists contend, that Apostolic Baptism was immersion, and never anything else. Milton, Chalmers, Afford, Stanley, Light foot, Ellicott, Howson, Pressense, Thay- CT, Schaff, Nesnder, Thuluck, Bleck, Meyer, De Wette, Lsnge, Ruckert, Ksh- his, Dollinger, Reuss, Olshausen, snd many others, according to Dr Hovey, former president of Newton Theological Seminary, admit the correctness of this position. The pathological ground upon which Baptist stand is thus seen to be im- pregnable. Exegetically, they are eq ual- ly sure of victory. Banish from mind, if you can, the meaning which the word "baptize" has been shown to have, and let us turn to single passage of Scrip ture, where the act is 90 described, that, if you had never before heard the word, you would see at once that it must car. ry with it the idea of descent into water and ascent out of water. Acts s: 38, 39, | "And He commanded the chariot to stand | still and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch: and he baptized him. And when they came up out of the water the Spirit of the Lord ! caught away Philip" Was not Dean Stanley right, when he said that If sprink- ling be baptism this language has no | meaning? Historically, Baptists are con- frmed ia their view. Hear Dean Stan. ley again: "Baptism by sprinkling was rejected by the whole ancient church | (except in the rare case of death-beds oI extreme necessity ss no baptism at all. | Christ and the Apostles recognized no exceptions: these came to be urged only after the view of baptism held by the Apostles and had been partially abandon
 ed. Let us summon to the witness stand but two of the ancient fathers. Athsn
 asius, bishop of Alexandria, says of one
 who was bartized, ''Thou didst initiate in the sinking down, the burial of the
 Master, but thou didst rise again from thence, before works witnessing the works of the resurrection" Cbrysos- tom, bishop and patriarch of Constant. nople, testiies, "For to be baptized and to sink down, then to emerge, is sym bol of the descent into the underworld,
 and of the ascent from thence. There
 fore Paul calls the baptism the burisl
 saying, We were buried, therefore, with him by baptism into desth." It is evi. dent that these men thought only of bsp
 tism as they had received it from the Apostles.
 Baptists inaist that, though men may force upon this word meaning utterly unknown to Jesus Christ, there is nc power in the universe which can change fact of history. That Jesus Christ was Himself baptized by immersion, and that His Apostles knew of no other water baptism, is an immutable fact of history. Nor can Baptists ever consent to the sub stitutfon of any other rite for that of i'm mersion. For two reasons l. No power resides in church, or pope, or council to nullify the teaching of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament. That book is not open to revision. 3. It is impossible to substitute another rite for that of immer
 sion without abandoning wholly the pur. | pose of the ordinance. This is vital Baptists are not literalists, not Journalists
 they know that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." They do not cling to baptism through sheer stubbornness. If it were possible to substitute anything else for it, such as sprinkling or pouring without sacrificing the rite, they would not oppose the change. Of all Christians in the world, except Quakers. Baptists attach least value to baptism as an exter- nal act. When Christ gave baptism and the Supper to His church He did it be- cause those two simple ordinances sym belize the whole of His Gospel. The im- portarce of baptism lies in the fact that it is mould of doctrine. Bishop Words worth renders Romans 6:17, ss fol-
 lows: "You readily obeyed the mould of Christian faith and practice into which st your baptism you were poured, as it were, like soft, ductile and fluent metal, in order to be cast and take it's form." Paul interprets the symbolism of baptism in this sixth chapter of Romans when he says: "Are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his deathp We were buried therefore with them through Sap- tism into death; that like as Christ was raised from the deadlthrough the glory of the Father, SO we also might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with him by the likeness of his death, we shall be also by the likeness of bis resurrection" It Is impossible to mistake this language. Baptism is . symbol, nothing more, but such sym