THE GRECIAN AND PRIMITIVE USE OF WATER IN CHRISTIANITY. —In a late number of the London Quarterly Review, we find the following interesting passage in an able review of Millman’s Latin Christianity:

"There can be no question that the original form of baptism—the very meaning of the word—was complete immersion in the deep baptismal waters, and that, for at least four centuries, any other form was either unknown or regarded as an exceptional or almost monstrous case. To this form the Greek Church still rigidly adheres; and the most illustrious and venerable portion of it—that of the Byzantine empire—absolutely repudiates and ignores any other mode of administration as essentially invalid. The Latin Church, on the other hand, doubtless in deference to the requirements of a northern climate, to the change of manners, to the convenience of custom, has wholly altered the mode, surrendering, as it would fairly say, the letter to the spirit, preferring mercy to sacrifice; and with the two exceptions of the Cathedral of Milmain and the sect of the Baptists, a few drops of water are now the western substitutes for the threefold plunge into the rushing river or the wide baptisteries of the East."

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What is the worth of that "piety" that expresses a fervent love for the Lord Jesus, while it neither believes the word he preached (and which, he says, is to judge men in the last day) nor obeys what he has commanded?

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If it was necessary for Cornelius, "a devout man," whose prayers were accepted of God, not only to believe certain words, but to be baptised in the name of Jesus, for salvation, as is evident from Acts 10, what dispensation has since been proclaimed of Heaven, exempting devout people in this, or any other age, from following the same example?

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"He that walks in darkness knoweth not whither he goes."—Jesus.

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"Love is the fulfilling of the law."—Paul. It is therefore equivalent to obedience.

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