. Highways and byways of the South. t thepreacher said. He say, I baptize thee, my sister, inthe name of the Father, and of the Son, and in thehole she goes ; and in the hole she did go! Yes, thepreacher putt me in all over, an no mistake. But Iwas scandalous badly fooled jining the Baptists, andsoon as I realize I didnt believe in immersion I jinedthe Methodists. Yo belief is con-/r^-ry to the Bible, affirmed The Bible, hit say buried in baptism. Whenpeople air goin to be buried in their grave yo wouldntjus sprinkle a little dirt over em an call that , yo have to cover em a
. Highways and byways of the South. t thepreacher said. He say, I baptize thee, my sister, inthe name of the Father, and of the Son, and in thehole she goes ; and in the hole she did go! Yes, thepreacher putt me in all over, an no mistake. But Iwas scandalous badly fooled jining the Baptists, andsoon as I realize I didnt believe in immersion I jinedthe Methodists. Yo belief is con-/r^-ry to the Bible, affirmed The Bible, hit say buried in baptism. Whenpeople air goin to be buried in their grave yo wouldntjus sprinkle a little dirt over em an call that , yo have to cover em all up, or they smell bad. Well, said Mr. Swazey, if the Baptist reason forimmersion is to git all cover up so they not smell bad,I believe hit a good thing. But I reckon we cantalways be shore jus what the Bible mean. Thebaptism yo pattern after was in the river Jerdan, anyet some pertends to say that the river Jerdan is onlysix inches deep, so yo couldnt immerse no one in it,nohow. That seem mighty unlikely, was Mr. Mosquitoes
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