in regard to salvation we learn from the teaching's of the savior that it is impossible for a person to enter the kingdom of heaven unless he com plies with this ordinance t.hts was made plain when the devout cornelius was told to send men to joppa for peter who would tell him what he should do to be saved when peter came down he baptized cornelius and family then again thereisdefinitenessin the conversation between christ and nicodemus when jesus used the words verily i say unto you except a man is born of the water and of the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of god " therefore if a person must be baptized in order to enter the kingdom of heaven how necessary it is for us to be baptized before a person should be baptized he should be old enough to know what he is doing1 and in order to do this he should be old enough to think realize and form opinions of his own if this doctrine is true what a doc trine is infant baptism who could think of condemning an innocent child how can a child sin it lies in its mother's arms helpless cannot distinguish its parents from any one else until it is trained jesus himself used them as the types of purity when he said ' ' whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of god as a little child he shall not enter therein this does not mean that we are to get small as a child but that we must be pure innocent and be full of charity we can find nothing in the bible that would substantiate in fant baptism there are incidents recorded where whole households have been baptized but since a person is baptized for remission of sin it is reason able to believe that there were no infants in the families again since we have no account of the savior's baptizing infants it is reasonable to believe that his apostles would not have chang'ed the ordinance of the gospel in so short a time the mode of baptism is another very important thing to be considered the bible teaches but one mode of baptism how is it then that there are different ways of baptizing among the different churches from the fact that we do not find these different ways in the teachings of our savior and his apostles we must conclude that the mode of baptism has been changed by man the word baptize is from the greek b a p l o or baptize which means to plunge or immerse and it seems that this is the meaning the word had in the days oe our savior for we iind that wheu philip baptized the queen's servant they both went down into the water and after philip had baptized him they came up out of the water this would have no significance if they did net need to go into the deep water for the purpose of immersion john also baptized near aenon because there was much water if sprinkling or pouring had been the mode why didn't he go to some well and there bap tize and why did the families that were baptized need to go out of the house next comes the baptism of the savior we are told by matthew that jesus came from galilee unto john to be baptized of him but john forbade john thinking himself not worthy to baptize the son of man but when jesus told him that he must be baptized in order to fulfill all righteousness john bap tized him and jesus when he was baptized came straightway up out of the water how foolish it is to believe as some of the world do that jesus was led into the edge of the water by john who taking up a sea-shell full of water p ured it upon bis head and thus baptized him the apostle paul who was an earnest worker in the church of christ gives us soine very strong proof in favor of immersion he compares baptism to a burial resurrection or a planting in his epistle to the romans he says know ye not that so many of us as were baptized unto jesus christ were baptized unto his dealh therefore we are buried with him by baptism unto death that like as christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father even so we also shall walk in newness of life for if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection and in colossians he says buried with him in baptism wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of god who hath raised him from the dead it is for each one to study the gospel of christ for bitnself searching out the truth wherever it can be found the savior tells us to seek and we shall find if a person will do this with full intent of purpose be will find the gospel for the gospel of christ is upon the earth at the present time with all its former gifts and blessings bringing salvation to all who repent of their sins and keep the commandments of our savior