1843-03-11-New Haven CT Daily Herald-Immersion
From New York City LDS History
- New Haven CT Daily Herald 11 March 1843 v.XI n59 p. 2
Immersion
On Tuesday evening, about seven o'clock, quite an interesting scene occurred at the Railway in Commercial street. Some of the Mormon Elders or Latter Day Saints conferred the rites of baptism on about fifteen new converts to their faith, by immersion in the river——a proceeding by the way which gave us a cold chill to look upon. Those engaged in the rites however, appeared to take the water like young ducks, and under the influence of a bright moon, and amid a throng of four or five hundred spectators, the ceremonies were gone through with, much to the satisfaction of all engaged, and productive of no little interest to the bystanders. — Boston Bee.
