. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . cipatethe time when I should receive my Endowments as the mostimportant epoch of my religious life, when I should betaken fully into the bosom of the church. It was necessary, in order to receive these rites, that Ishould be re-baptized. Remembering my childish experi-ence, and the terror which I suffered, I must confess that I 352 I AM DIPPED AGAIN. dreaded, in my weakened state of health, that portion ofthe ceremony, and I grew
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . cipatethe time when I should receive my Endowments as the mostimportant epoch of my religious life, when I should betaken fully into the bosom of the church. It was necessary, in order to receive these rites, that Ishould be re-baptized. Remembering my childish experi-ence, and the terror which I suffered, I must confess that I 352 I AM DIPPED AGAIN. dreaded, in my weakened state of health, that portion ofthe ceremony, and I grew quite nervous over it before theday arrived on which that rite was to be performed. I wasreassured on one point, however! The pond experiencewas not to be repeated, but I was to be baptized in theTwelfth Ward font, which made it seem much less formi-dable, and divested it of half its terror. On the day appointed I was taken to the Twelfth Wardmeeting-house by my mother, where we met Isaac Groo,who was to baptize me. I was half frightened, and whollyawed, and very nervous; but my ardent desire for the re-establishment of my health gave me a sort of bravery and. Mormon Baptism. endurance, so that I was quite calm, and behaved myselfvery well, considering the unnaturally excited state whichI was in. The ordinance of baptism, as administered by the Mor-mons, does not differ very materially from that of the Bap-tist churches. It is always by immersion. Nothing else isever considered •efficacious. It must be a literal wateryburial, and a resurrection therefrom. The officiating elder,with his candidate for the rite, repairs to some place whichhas been previously appointed, and where there is a suffi-cient quantity of water to immerse the entire person. Not WATERY I 353 the least portion of the body must be left above the purifyingfluid, else it could not be termed a perfect burial withChrist. In the early days it was necessar} to perform thisordinance in the open air, in some river
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