A Watery World.--Moreover, in the symbolism of the Scriptures, this world is represented by water. [18] "All things are water," said the Greek Thales. At the very dawn of creation, Spirit and Water, the two elements used in baptism, were both present--the one creative, the other createable. [19] "Let the dry land appear!" The very words suggest baptism, birth, creation--the emergence of an infant planet from the womb of the waters. And when the Almighty was about to send the Flood, he said to Noah, concerning the wicked: "Behold, I will destroy them with the earth." [20] Did he mean the watery element which enters so largely into the composition of the earth? A Double Doorway.--Water represents the temporal part of creation, including the body or mortal part of man. Baptism therefore, in its twofold character, suggests the passing out from this watery world into the spirit world, and thence by resurrection into eternal glory. It is only a suggestion, but it emphasizes for me the reason why the doorway to the Church and Kingdom of God is a double doorway, a dual birth, a baptism of Water and of the Spirit. Footnotes 1. Matt. 3:16. 2. Acts 8:38. 3. John 3:23. 4. Rom. 6:3-5; Col. 2:12. 5. 1 Cor. 10:1, 2. 6. Ib. 15:29. 7. The first recorded case of clinic baptism is mentioned by Eusebius as having occurred in the third century. 8. 3 Nephi 11:23-29. 9. Eph. 4:5. 10. 1 John 1:7. 11. Moses 6:59, 60. 12. Mark 1:8. 13. President Lorenzo Snow, in describing the effect of the Spirit upon himself, after his baptism in water, says: "It was a complete baptism--a tangible immersion in the heavenly principle or element, the Holy Ghost."--Improvement Era, June, 1919, p. 654. 14. Acts 8:17. 15. Other synonyms were "consecration" and "consummation." Those baptized were understood to have consecrated their lives to God, and to have consummated or completed their preparation for communion with the Church of Christ. Only to such was the sacrament of the Lord's Supper administered. 16. 1 Cor. 15:35-44. 17. 1 Cor. 3:1,2; Heb. 5:13, 14. 18. Dan. 7; Rev. 13, 17. 19. Gen. 1:2. 20. Ib. 6:13. ARTICLE THIRTY-FOUR. The Gospel's Accessories. Many Ways to the Heart.--There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart; and the Church of Christ, in its mission of promulgating truth and turning souls to righteousness, has legitimate use for every avenue to that heart. Poetry, music, art in general, as well as science and philosophy--all these can be utilized as auxiliaries in the carrying on of the Lord's manifold work. They may not be essential parts of the divine message, but they prepare the way for its acceptance and are the forerunners of greater things. This, to my thinking, is the main reason why they are in the world. There is something purifying, ennobling, exalting, in all true poetry, true music, real science and genuine philosophy.