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: 

[Footnote 200:  Josephus Vol. 3, P. 324; Vol. 4, P. 99]

[Footnote 201:  Eusebius P. 75]

[Footnote 202:  Gibbon’s Rome Vol. 1, P. 399]

[Footnote 203:  Josephus Vol. 4, P. 337]

[Footnote 204:  Christian Institutions P. 202]

[Footnote 205:  Acts 21.21, 24]

[Footnote 206:  Cyclopedia American and Britanica]

[Footnote 207:  Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 1, P. 209; Vol. 5, P. 667; Vol. 5, P. 678]

[Footnote 208:  Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6, P. 217]

[Footnote 209:  Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3, P. 669]

[Footnote 210:  Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3, P. 669]

[Footnote 211:  Bucks Dictionary]

[Footnote 212:  Ecclesiastical History Vol. 2, P. 228]

[Footnote 213:  Cyclopedia American and Britanica]

[Footnote 214:  Ecclesiastical History Vol. 1, P. 383]

[Footnote 215:  Ecclesiastical History Vol. 1, P. 381]

[Footnote 216:  Ecclesiastical History Vol. 1, P. 382]

[Footnote 217:  Ecclesiastical History Vol. 3, P. 105]

[Footnote 218:  Ecclesiastical History Vol. 2, P. 226; Vol. 2, P. 705]

[Footnote 219:  Britanica]

[Footnote 220:  Neander Vol. 2, P. 240; Vol. 2, P. 241; Vol. 2, P. 242]

[Footnote 221:  Mosheim Vol. 3, P. 104; Vol. 3, P. 105; Vol. 3, P. 105; Vol. 1, P. 419]

[Footnote 222:  Mosheim Vol. 1, P. 314; Cyclopedia under Constantine Ambrose Chrysostom Jerome etc.]

[Footnote 223:  Cyclopedia American and Britanica; Mosheim Vol. 2, P. 181]

[Footnote 224:  Neander Vol. 3, P. 263]

[Footnote 225:  Cyclopedia American and Britanica]

[Footnote 226:  Mosheim Vol. 2, P. 355; Neander Vol. 3, P. 578]

[Footnote 227:  Mosheim Vol. 2, P. 565; Neander Vol. 3, P. 593]

[Footnote 228:  Mosheim Vol. 2, P. 567; Neander Vol. 3, P. 597]

[Footnote 229:  Neander Vol. 3, P. 600]

[Footnote 230:  Heb. 7.10]

[Footnote 231:  Neander Vol. 4, P. 556]

[Footnote 232:  Mosheim Vol. 3, P. 104; Vol. 3, P. 107; Vol. 1, P. 108]

[Footnote 233:  Mosheim Vol. 3, P. 270; Vol. 3, P. 276; Vol. 3, P. 365; Vol. 3, P. 449; Vol. 3, P. 455]

[Footnote 234:  Neander Vol. 4, P. 642; Cyclopedia American and Britanica]

[Footnote 235:  Rev. 17.5, 6]

[Footnote 236:  Mat. 5.3, 12]