BAPTISM IN BATHS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 52, 23 October 1931, Page 5

BAPTISM IN BATHS

i i' MEN AND WOMEN BAPTISED IN OFEN BY COMPLETE lMMEkSlt)N. SYDNEY, Monday. At Ramsgate yesterday seven converts to the Sect of the Assembly of God were haptised ih the op'eii. Pastor Langely Simmons, clad in walking dress, and a surplice, waiked out from the shallow end of Ramsgate Baths, and baptised (hy compiete immersion), seven souls— two mieh ahd five women. ' One of the women was an attractive girl with brown eyes. She wore ef kimono as, She emerged from the Water. In Towels. . The other were content to wrap themselves in- toweis, handed to them by friends. > - "I baptise you- ih the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost," chanted Pastor Simmons as he seized each diseiple who waiked out to him, and. with a deft combination of wrist and. head hold plunged- him or her beneath. the salty • waves. . The girl obviously enoyed it. She was. followed hy a grey-haired woman. . Two young men wore whte tennis shirts and trousers and ■ suffered little discomfort by-the immersion; Pastor Simmons -says that the movement to. which he belongg is sweeping the ehurches in England. So far the Rockdale branch is the only one in Sydney. It had nothing to do' with Aimee Macpherson, he said, but was the Fouf-Square Gospel of Erigland.