The Methodist review . rry this symbolism to its highest possibility of ex-pression and therein fulfill the Baptists declaration that theordinance as administered by him was inadequate to theChristian idea. Then a new formula was given which wasforever to be identified with the ceremony and give it char-acter. The advance is positive, decided. The natural sym-bol of purity is retained, the sinful past is to be renounced,but the child of God is now to faceji pure future as a memberof the kingdom of the triune God. With, the administrationof the water men were baptized into the name of the Fathe
The Methodist review . rry this symbolism to its highest possibility of ex-pression and therein fulfill the Baptists declaration that theordinance as administered by him was inadequate to theChristian idea. Then a new formula was given which wasforever to be identified with the ceremony and give it char-acter. The advance is positive, decided. The natural sym-bol of purity is retained, the sinful past is to be renounced,but the child of God is now to faceji pure future as a memberof the kingdom of the triune God. With, the administrationof the water men were baptized into the name of the Fatherand of the Son and of the Holv Ghost/ Eternity lies beforeand with sufficient inspiration and power from the Infinite,whose name we love and whose service we accept. It is afar cry from a frenzied plunge into the Ganges to a dedicationso thoughtful, so moral, so complete. Yet God is back ofall, patiently compassing his great purpose to help mankindto the purity of heart that has the promise of a long vision Justin Martyr. 197 Art. III.—JUSTIN MARTYR. JcsTlN was a Gentile, but born in Samaria, near JacobsII, about 110 A. D. He was martyred about 1G3 A. D. lie > to have been of well-to-do parentage; traveled niueh,I Hellenic education, and was from the first an earnest m *ker after truth and God. This is why he became a student • ( philosophy. And in philosophy he refused to pause till secured the object of his quest, true knowledge of God,U left his first teacher, a Stoic, because that philosopherlight instruction in the knowledge of God a thing unneces-v; a peripatetic to whom he attached himself seemed to? -<- more for money than anything else, so Justin turnedq him; a Pythagorean, who seemed capable of instructingi, dismissed him because he was not acquainted with music,• nomy, and geometry; at last he fell in with the PlatonistsI expected soon to attain the end of Platos philosophy andk upon God. Bui one day an old man, a stranger, met him in the ret
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