here defined, expresses a definite and _completed_ act. When by one continuous process a person or thing is put into the water and withdrawn, it is not a _baptizing_, in the classic meaning, but a _bapting_, a dipping. It is true the word does not determine “whether the object immersed sinks to the bottom or floats in the liquid, or is immediately taken out,” provided that by “immediately,” is not to be understood, instantaneously,—provided that by the baptism, the object is deposited in the water and left there. The emersion, if it take place at all, must be a distinct and subsequent act, and can not be performed as _a part of the baptizing_. This, Dr. Kendrick, professor of Greek in the Rochester University, and a member of the American Committee of Revision on the New Testament, in his review of Dr. Dale, most emphatically concedes, with italics and emphasis none the less significant because of the intense irritation which breathes in his article. “Granting that _bapto_, _always_ engages to take its subject from the water (which we do not believe), and that _baptizo never_ does (which we readily admit), we have Mr. Dale’s reluctant concession that it interposes no obstacle to his coming out.” _Baptizo_ “lays its subject under the water; it does not hold him there a single moment. Its whole function is fulfilled with the act of submersion. It offers no shadow of an obstacle to his instant emergence from his watery entombment. We have the utmost confidence in the kindly purpose of _baptizo_, and of Him who has made its liquid grave the external portal to his kingdom. Neither it nor He intends to drown us. We let _baptizo_ take us into the water, and can trust to men’s instinctive love of life, their common sense, their power of volition and normal muscular action, to bring them safely out.” “The law of God in revelation sends the Baptist down into the waters of immersion; when it is accomplished, the equally imperative law of God in nature brings him safely out.” “As between the two [_baptizo_ and _bapto_], _baptizo_ is the appropriate word, partly from its greater length, weight and dignity of form, and still more from its distinctive import. It is not a dipping that our Lord instituted, but an immersion. He did not command _to put people into the water_ and _take them out again_; but _to put them under the water_, to _submerge_ them, to _bury_ them, symbolically, in the grave of their buried Redeemer; like him indeed, not to remain there, but with him to arise to newness of life. This arising, though essential to the completeness of the transaction, could not be included in the designation of the rite, any more than the rising of the Redeemer could be included in the words denoting his crucifixion and burial.” “We repeat with emphasis, for the consideration of our Baptist brethren; Christian baptism is no mere literal and senseless ‘dipping,’ assuring the frightened candidate of a safe exit