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One Minister has said, "It is a shame for Christians to go back of Jesus for any doctrine." Jesus said, "I came not to destroy, but to fulfill." His teaching filled whatever lacked in that which preceded him. He was baptized of John because, in his generosity, he saw that John's baptism met the views of the time but this view was nearing its end to be fulfilled in a larger vision. "Suffer it to be so now," he said --- it shall not always be so.

Paul says, "Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel." To Paul, more than to any other, did the spiritual idea appeal. It seems as if he could discard the outer more easily than those Apostles who had been associated personally with Jesus. They were more tempted to look to a Saviour outside of themselves, and to outer forms and ceremonies.

Paul could say, "Christ in you the hope of glory. It pleased God to reveal his Son in me. Now know I no man after the flesh --- yea, though I have known Christ after the flesh, yet now know I him so no more."

What is the Christ Baptism? --- to which Christians surely should adhere. "The Holy Ghost and fire." Immersion of every thought in Divine Consciousness (the Holy Ghost) in Love that "seeketh not its own," in purity of purpose, of thought and of deed. Destruction of every false sense (fire). To receive this "baptism," we must be willing