LANCASTER COTJNTT, 213-" 



"The consciences of the before mentioned could, how- 

 ever, find no satisfaction in these; they, therefore, 

 desired him, who was their minister, to baptize them by- 

 immersion; according to the example and practice of 

 the first christians and primitive beUevers; he felt a 

 diffidence to comply with their request on account of his 

 not being baptized himself, he desired, therefore, first to 

 be baptized before he could conscientiously baptize any 

 of them; and they betook themselves to fasting and 

 prayer, in order to obtain help and direction in this case, 

 from Him who is the restorer of paths to dwell in, for they 

 were all desirous to be baptized. In this dilemma, a 

 testimony of scripture revived in their minds, "Where 

 two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the 

 midst.'' 



"Wherefore, with an unbroken confidence in the 

 precious promise of God, they cast lots, who of the 

 four brethren should baptize him, that was anxiously 

 desirous of being baptized; they pledged their word, at 

 the same time, that it should remain a secret upon whom 

 the lot fell, that no one might take occasion to call the 

 society by the name of any man, as was the case with 

 tlie Corinthian church, which was sharply reproved by 

 the Apostle." 



"The crisis for the camp to move forward, had now 

 arrived; they were now made willing in the day of the 

 Lord's power; accordingly, they went out in the morn- 

 ing, to a stream called Ader, and then, he, upon whom 

 the lot had fallen, baptized the brother, who was so 

 anxious to submit to the ordinance. This being done, 

 he was aclmowledged as duly qualified; he baptized 

 him first by whom he had been baptized, and the three 

 remaining brethren, and the sisters; thus were these 

 eight, at an early hour in the morning, baptized in the 



