Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.
While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.
God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.
It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years' accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose.
See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.
