Can you change these ordinances? No. They are
eternal; they always were and always will be; and no man or woman upon earth
can be saved without them. You may get a Methodist priest to pour water on you,
or sprinkle it on you, and baptize you face foremost, or lay you down the other
way, and whatever mode you please, and you will be damned with your priest.
There is but one way, and that is to be buried in water, buried with Christ by
baptizing in water, that your sins may be blotted out by one having authority,
or else it will do you no good. (JOD 5:90| July 26 1857)