as there are now, therefore no
necessity for such a name.

Sacrament was a Pagan name for a military oath and was ruled into its
present position by apostate Christians.

The apostles and first Christians evidently continued to eat the
Passover Supper, because their fathers had done so for ages in memory of
Israel passing over the Red Sea out of Egypt, and not from any command
of Christ. Otherwise they would with still more persistence have
continued to wash each other's feet, which Jesus commanded with language
and actions far more solemn, impressive and imperative.[237]

The Ante-Nicene Fathers and Eusebius inform us that water baptism was a
prolific cause of bitter discord and division among the early
Christians. It still sorrowfully distracts the loving children of our
one Father and impedes the spread of his kingdom in the earth.

These lamentable conditions must inevitably continue until such shadows
are dissolved by divine brightness in that day which we rejoice to
believe is now dawning.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 200: Josephus Vol. 3, P. 324; Vol. 4, P. 99]

[Footnote 201: Eusebius P. 75]

[Footnote 202: Gibbon's Rome Vol. 1, P. 399]

[Footnote 203: Josephus Vol. 4, P. 337]

[Footnote 204: Christian Institutions P. 202]

[Footnote 205: Acts 21.21, 24]

[Footnote 206: Cyclopedia American and Britanica]

[Footnote 207: Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 1, P. 209; Vol. 5, P. 667;
Vol. 5, P. 678]

[Footnote 208: Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6, P. 217]

[Footnote 209: Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3, P. 669]

[Footnote 210: Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3, P. 669]

[Footnote 211: Bucks Dictionary]

[Footnote 212: Ecclesiastical History Vol. 2, P. 228]

[Footnote 213: Cyclopedia American and Britanica]

[Footnote 214: Ecclesiastical History Vol. 1, P. 383]

[Footnote 215: Ecclesiastical History Vol. 1, P. 381]

[Footnote 216: Ecclesiastical History Vol. 1, P. 382]

[Footnote 217: Ecclesiastical History Vol. 3, P. 105]

[Footnote 218: Ecclesiastical History Vol. 2, P. 226; Vol. 2, P. 705]

[Footnote 219: Britanica]

[Footnote 220: Neander Vol. 2, P. 240; Vol. 2, P. 241; Vol. 2, P. 242]

[Footnote 221: Mosheim Vol. 3, P. 104; Vol. 3, P. 105; Vol. 3, P. 105;
Vol. 1, P. 419]

[Footnote 222: Mosheim Vol. 1, P. 314; Cyclopedia under Constantine
Ambrose Chrysostom Jerome etc.]

[Footnote 223: Cyclopedia American and Britanica; Mosheim Vol. 2, P. 181]

[Footnote 224: Neander Vol. 3, P. 263]

[Footnote 225: Cy