Dr. Campbell Morgan's Preference

In a sermon on ”The True Order of Missionary Work” with the Great Commission as his text, Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, pastor of a Congregational Church in London and highly honored in America, gives his preference concerning baptism as follows:

”The first thing I have to say is that there is no question at all that baptism in those (New Testament) days meant immersion. That is not open to question. . . .

”I affirm, unhesitatingly, that the original word means immersion; I affirm that, in order to point out that the symbol that Jesus commanded was a symbol suggesting death into life. In the whelming beneath the waters we have the symbol of death. In the emergence from the waters we have the symbol of life beyond the death, resurrection, life. . . .

I prefer to abide by the primitive rite in the old and simple form. Seeing that the Lord did leave with us who bear his name only two simple rites or ceremonies - that of his table and that of baptism - I prefer to follow his command according to the earliest method.”