Arizona republican., 1919-12-22

Cornelius when the baptism in the Spirit was given to the Gentiles to con vince the Jewish Christians that God had granted repentance unto life to the Gentiles as we'll as the Jews.
 CD Bible baptism requires much water. And John was baptizing In Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there." (John 3:23)- There are many good people who have been taught that there are three bap- tiSms. Paul said that at the time he wrote there was but one, but there are some of us who have been taught that there are three. Now if we were to read in the Kansas City Star tomor- row that a certain minister was .baptizing in Jackson county near to water there.' what would we think that that minister was doing: Sprfnk- ling, pouring. or immersing those who had come to be baptized9 What do people generally do when they go to a place where there is much water? generally immersed. If then. there is any argument in the verse at all on the so-ca1led question of the mode" it is on the side of immersion.
 (3) Bible baptism also requires a going to the water" In Mark Is we find that Jesus came from Nazareth to Galilee, and was baptized of John in the Jordan and in Acts S36 we are told that "as they went on their way (Philip and the eunuch). they came to a certain water and the eunuch saith, Behold, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?" In both these instances the candidates for baptism came to the water Now if we were to read in the Star tomorrow that this minister of whom we were just speaking, who was baptiZing in Jackson county near to Kansas City h<x @l~ when the baptism took place went to the water" what would we assume as to the so-called mode of the baptism that he practiced? What do men gen orally do when they go to a place where there Is much water? You say that it is evident that an immersion took place, for men are generally i'm mersed when they go to the water.
 (4) Now the matter becames even more clear when, once more directing our attention to the illustration of Philip and the officer. we note that he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both went down into the water both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. If we read in the Star about this minister who was baptizing in Jackson county near to Kansas City because there was much water there. that not only did he and those who were to be baptized go to place where there was much water but that they went down into it. both the minister and those who were to be baptized, we would have no doubt at all as to what happened. It is clear that an immersion took place.
 l5) In Rom. 6:4, Paul tells us that We are buried, therefore with him through baptism into death, That like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father. so we also might walk in newness of life" And in Colossians, 2:12, he says: Hay ing been buried with him in baptism, wherein also we have been raised with him through faith in the working of God, that raised Him from the dead" In both of these great statements he speaks of baptism a burial. It is interesting to note that when Paul thinks of the one baptism he thinks of a burial, for he is the one. as we have noted, who says there is one baptism.