Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Baptism: The Covenant and the Family
Baptist principles have never found a congenial soil in France and Switzerland, and were discarded by the martyr Huguenots. Of late, however, they have met with considerable favor among the Evangelical Christians of these countries, many of whom have adopted them in the ory, although very few as yet have carried them out in practice. The Baptist doctrine has there had all the ad vantage of being a plausible novelty, and of meeting minds unprepared and untrained to Oppose it. Moreover, French Protestantism suffers very much from the evils resulting from State Churchism and its concomitant, mere nominal Christianity. To many serious and in?uential Christians the Baptist principle appears the great remedy for these evils, inasmuch as it seems to promote individual pro fession. But they generally ignore the most repulsive features of the practice of Baptists, and will scarcely credit the rigidity of their sectarian discipline nor the scenes usually attendant upon immersion.
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