J. M. Frost - 1916
"Just as money deposits are committed not merely to the custody of a bank or corporation, but also to a strong room or safe, similarly I venture to affirm the Christian Gospel was committed for its 'safe keeping not to chosen men or to the church as a whole, and to the New Testament Scriptures, but to the two ordinances of the Christian church, the Lord's Supper and the Lord's baptism, and more particularly to the latter. The ordinance of baptism has been called a 'statuary of truth'; it contains a whole body of divinity; it enshrines, conserves and shows forth fundamental Christian doctrine.
"Hence when we contend for the apostolic observance of the ordinance, both as to its subjects and its mode, let it be carefully noted, we are not contending for a solitary question of doctrine, much less for a mere form of ritual, but for the right observance of an ordinance which is designed to focus and express many great and foundation doctrines. To substitute sprinkling or pouring for immersion is not such a trivial matter as substituting little water for much water, but it is to utterly destroy the emblematical significance of the rite, as Dean Goulburn points out with great justice and force in his Bampton lecture, and as Bishop Gore has recently declared in these words, 'We have in our church and country almost wholly lost the symbolism which belongs to baptism by immersion'."
- From Rev. W. J. Eddy, in The Baptist Union, of Victoria, Australia; quoted in The Baptist World, Louisville, Ky., March 7, 1912.