[Erastus
Snow] spoke on the principles of the United Order, using the text “if we are not
one, ye are not mine.” He incidentally stated that the door of baptism had been
opened for the remission of sins, for the renewal of covenants and for the
observance of the Rules of the Holy United Order, by President Brigham Young. James
Godson Bleak, The Annals of the Southern Mission, August 8, 1875, in The Annals of the
Southern Mission: A Record of the History of the Settlement of Southern Utah, ed. Aaron McArthur
and Reid L. Neilson [Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2019], 404)
President
Erastus Snow addressed the Saints in St George Tabernacle. 9 persons
were baptized by Brother Snow to-day.
The wording
of the ceremony of baptism into the United Order, as used in the baptisms
administered by Apostle Erastus Snow was as follow:--_ _ _ _ _ _ _
<(Name)> “having authority given me of Jesus Christ, I baptize you for
the remission of your sins, the renewal of your covenants, and for the observance
of the rules of the Holy United Order, in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.” (Ibid., September 5, 1875, 405)
