While, in the pages that follow, controversy has been so far as possible sedulously avoided, yet it is hoped a careful perusal may prove helpful even to those who have been troubled by conflicting views. The book presents the conclusions I have been obliged to come to after utterly denying for a number of years any present importance attaching to this ordinance, and after a careful study of what others have put forth on the subject, as well as much time spent, I trust before the Lord, over the word of God. The apology for its publication, if such be needed, can be stated in a few words. In going about, now for some years, seeking to "do the work of an evangelist," I have been importuned again and again for a paper expressing my thoughts on this question. Finding no publication that seemed to me altogether suitable (so few being at all full without being exceedingly controversial), I have tried to give as clearly and briefly as possible, what I believe to be the scriptural teaching upon it. I ask an equally careful comparison of my statements in the following pages with the unerring guide, the Word of Truth. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." H.A. IRONSIDE Oakland, CA, April, 1901
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