The Ante-Nicene Fathers and Eusebius inform us that water baptism was a prolific cause of bitter discord and division among the early Christians. It still sorrowfully distracts the loving children of our one Father and impedes the spread of his kingdom in the earth.
These lamentable conditions must inevitably continue until such shadows are dissolved by divine brightness in that day which we rejoice to believe is now dawning.
FOOTNOTES:
[200] Josephus Vol. 3, P. 324; Vol. 4, P. 99
[201] Eusebius P. 75
[202] Gibbon's Rome Vol. 1, P. 399
[203] Josephus Vol. 4, P. 337
[204] Christian Institutions P. 202
[205] Acts 21.21, 24
[206] Cyclopedia American and Britanica