20 BAPTISM, Orderly C. H. Cayce Question: A is a Baptist preacher in full fellowship, but he becomes disorderly by receiving Missionary baptism into his church. The true church withdraws from him, and while he is considered in disorder be baptizes B. Now B desires to be in full fellowship with the true church. Can B be received into fellowship without being re-baptized?
Answer: If A was excluded from the church he had no right or authority to administer baptism for the church. It was most assuredly out of order to receive Missionary baptism. It would be just as good order to receive an immersion as orderly gospel baptism administered by any other people as that administered by the Missionary Baptists. Then, if A was withdrawn from after he did this and immersed B while thus out of order, then B is not baptized. If A stood excluded when be immersed B, it was not orderly gospel baptism. Hence B was not baptized— he was immersed. It seems to us that if B desires to be in full fellowship with orderly Baptists, the thing to do is to be baptized by one who is authorized by an orderly church to administer the ordinance, and who is in order when he administers it. The Primitive Baptist, May 18, 27, 1909.