1843-03-21-Bridgeport CT Republican Farmer-Immersion
From New York City LDS History
- Bridgeport CT Republican Farmer 21 March 1843 v34 n1718 p. 2
Immersion
On Tuesday evening, about 7 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.
