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 church. The existing rule of Convention, therefore, requiring the rebaptism of its ministers, is, in its spirit and practical working, substantially the same as the amended Rule of 1889.

And what do we mean when we repeat the ordinance of baptism on one (be he minister or layman) who has already received it in some other Christian communion?—for actions are quite as significant as words. What do we proclaim to the church and the world by that solemn act? Plainly this: that the candidate has never before received Christian baptism; that he now for the first time enters the outer gate of the visible Christian Church; and therefore that the communion in which he was first baptized is not to