The discorse of Mr Walker was princeably on Baptisam and the Savour been Baptized by John in the river Jordon.
And also the multitude that was Baptized on the day of penticost. And of Philip Baptizing the Eunuch, and Mr Walker explained those passages of scripture to meain that it was intended for addult persons or persons who had come to the years of maturity for the forgiveness or washing away of sins by emersion and also by one having authority from God and been ordained of the Lord to the office of the high priesthood and that Baptism of infants was not of Christs nor his disciples, such was the language of Mr Walker at this meeting. (Eli Wiggill, “The Life and Adventures of Mr. Eli Wiggill” [1883], pp. 354-55, in The Life and Adventures of Eli Wiggill: South African 1820 Settler, Wesleyan Missionary, and Latter-day Saint, ed. Fred E. Woods, Jay H. Buckley, and Hunter T. Hallows [Draper, Utah: Greg Kofford Books, 2024], 134-35, spelling in original retained)
