“Under no circumstances could we be induced to sprinkle or pour water upon a subject in the name of the Trinity and call it baptism. It is not only not commanded by Christ, but it is positively forbidden to be done by him for the act he commanded. If he did not specify the action of baptism, he did not enact a law for baptism, and it has no place in the Christian system. If Christ did specify the act, he did thereby prohibit any other than that act. If immersion be that act, and I have no more doubt of it than I have that the author of Christian baptism is ‘the Christ of God,’ then affusion is no baptism, but the counterfeit of, or human substitute for Christian baptism, and whenever performed for baptism is in contravention of the expressed will of Christ.”
The Baptist, Saturday, July 24, 1875, p. 6
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