his word right, no matter who might
have liked it?"

"They ought to have done so," said Sterling, "and they ought to have put
the English word 'sprinkle' instead of the Greek word '_baptizo_'."

"Oh, I see," said the father. "I guess the Presbyterians, when they came
to translate the word into English, would put it 'sprinkle', and those
who believed in dipping would translate it 'dipping'."

"That's it exactly," said Sterling. "The translators, in order not to
offend the different denominations, agreed not to translate the word at
all, but simply to put the Greek word '_baptizo_' in the English Bible
and let each one translate it for himself as he thought proper."

"Can't we find out what that Greek word '_baptizo_' means?" asked
Dorothy.

"Certainly, here is the Greek scholar," said Mr. Page turning to his
son. "Tell us, Roland, what did the Greeks understand by that word
'_baptizo_' when they used it?"

"I must get my Greek lexicon for that." And upstairs he hurried and soon
returned with Liddell and Scott's Greek and English Lexicon. He turned
to the word "_baptizo_" and read its meaning as follows: "To dip
repeatedly, to dip under."

"What is that?" exclaimed the father, almost bouncing out of his chair,
"'to dip under'?"

"Here it is on page 130."

"It seems to me," said the father, "that would settle it. If the Greek
word that Christ used meant to dip under, what right has anyone to say
that baptism is to be done by sprinkling?"

"What do you do with a passage like this in 1 Cor. 10:2?" said Mr.
Sterling--"'were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.'
They were all baptized, but do you see any immersion in that? It refers,
you know, to the time when the Israelites passed through the sea dry
shod with a cloud over them. They were baptized, but they were surely
not immersed, for they would have been drowned."

"I did not know of such an event," said Dorothy. "What do you mean by
saying that they went through the sea dry shod?"

"God banked up the waters on both sides and let them walk through
untouched by the water."

"Did you say the waters were banked on both sides of them and that a
cloud covered them?"

"Yes."

"Isn't that a picture of immersion? The ground was under them, the water
on both sides and the cloud covered them. It was much more like an
immersion than a sprinkling."

"Hold on," said Sterling. "The cloud was not over them, but back of
them. The cloud was always eith