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Title: The baptism of the ages and of the nations
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cathcart, William, 1826-1908 American Baptist Publication Society
Subjects: Baptism -- History
Publisher: Philadelphia, American Baptist publication society
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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¹ Russia, by J. G. Kohl, pp. 251, 252. London, 1842.
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162 THE BAPTISM OF THE

itself right and left into the village, in which the
Starovers baptized those who come over to them from
the Established Church."¹

CONVERTS OF ADULT YEARS ARE IMMERSED IN
THE RUSSIAN CHURCH.

In the February number of Harper's Magazine
for 1869 there is a woodcut representing an im-
mersion, as above. (Plate IV.)
The traveller who witnessed it says: " About
fifty versts from Nijne Novgorod the population
of a large village was gathered in Sunday dress
upon the ice. A baptism was in progress, and as
we drove past the assemblage I caught a glimpse
of a man plunging through a freshly-cut hole. Half
a minute later he emerged from the crowd and ran
toward the nearest house, the water dripping from
his garments and hair."
The plate from which
our picture is taken was furnished to us by the
proprietors of Harper's Magazine.

¹ Stanley's History of the Eastern Church, pp. 509, 511, 516.
New York, 1870.
² Harper's Magazine, vol. 38, p. 300.

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AGES AND THE NATIONS. 163

TURKEY AND GREECE.

THE GREEK CHURCH.

" THE CONSTIUTIONS AND CANONS OF THE HOLY
APOSTLES."

This work is divided into eight books, the last
one of which ends with the eighty-five Canons.
The entire work is full of Scripture quotations,
and while it occasionally teaches error it is rich in
precious truths. It is of great antiquity; nearly
all its latest parts come but a short way into the
fourth century, and its earliest portions stretch up
almost to the first. The whole work treats of doc-
trines, the rights and duties of the clergy, and the
principles that should govern all Christians.
In canon twenty-two ¹ it condemns all deeds like
the one known as the " heroic act of Origen." This
canon must have been adopted when the excite-
ment against the fanaticism of Origen was at its
height. Canon six: " Let not a bishop, presbyter, or

¹ Constiutions and Canons of the Holy Apostles. New York,
1848.

164 THE BAPTISM OF THE

deacon cast off his own wife under pretence of
piety; but if he cast her off, let him be suspended.

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