FLOOD, The, God’s children in C. H. Cayce We have a letter from Elder G. S. Schuler and Joe Vines, at Farrell, Miss., in which they tell of a good meeting and an ordination, and state that they had a question up and ask us if God had any people to get lost in the flood. In answer to their query we would say that the destruction of those who were out of the ark, being destroyed by water, was not an eternal destruction, but a temporal one. Their temporal or natural life was destroyed. Noah was a child of God, and an obedient one. He obeyed the Lord, and was saved from the old world to the new, with his family. “When once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing; wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us,”etc.— Peter. That was a figure, and baptism is a figure like that. Baptism does not save with an everlasting or eternal salvation; and as it is a figure like the other, then the other did not save with an eternal salvation. It saved from the old world to the new; and baptism now saves the obedient child of God from out in the world into the church of Christ. No one dare say that all who were drowned in the flood went to hell. To say that would be to preach infant damnation by the wholesale. In our discussions with men who have argued that baptism in water was necessary in order to a home in heaven we have often asked if all who were drowned in the flood went to hell. Not one of them would ever say yes. It was a temporal or timely matter, and had no reference to eternal life at all. The Primitive Baptist, March 15, 1925.