the church, being only an executive body, cannot modify Christ's law concerning, 939

the law of, fundamental, and therefore unalterable save by Legislator himself, 939

any modification of, by church, implies unwisdom in Appointer of rite, 939

any change in mode vacates ordinance of its symbolic significance, 939

objections to its mode, immersion, 940

if its mode impracticable, ordinance not a duty, 940

when its mode dangerous, ordinance not to be performed, 940

the mode of baptism decently impressive, 940

the ordinance symbolizing suffering and death is consistently somewhat inconvenient, 940

God's blessing on an irregular administration of, no sanction of irregularity, 940