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"Well, Marthy had her say-so about the next child that one was a boy, too, and they named him Amos for his father and young Amos wasn't babtized in infancy; he was 'laid aside for immersion, as Sam Amos said. Then it was Amos' time to have his way, and so they went on till young Amos was about fifteen years old and Marthy got him converted and ready to be immersed.
If he's a reprobate, babtizin' ain't goin' to do him any good, and if he's elected he don't need to be babtized.
Milly come up jest as Sam was gittin' into Old Man Bob's wagon, and says she, 'Well, Sam, you've ruined your Sunday pants this time. And Sam says, 'Pants nothin'. The rest o' you all can save your Sunday pants if you want to, but this here's a free country, and I ain't goin' to stand by and see a man babtized against his will while I'm able to save him. And if Sam'd saved Amos' life, instead o' jest savin' him from babtism, Amos couldn't 'a' been gratefuler.
Twins run in the Crawford family. Amos had him babtized in infancy jest like he said he would, and such a hollerin' and squallin' never was heard in Goshen church. The next day Sally Ann says to me, says she, 'That child must 'a' been a Babtist, Jane; for he didn't appear to favor infant babtism.
Sam Amos says to me, 'Well, Aunt Jane, Marthy's waited a long time, but she'll have her innin's now. "Bush Elrod was the first one to go under the water; and when two or three more had been babtized, it was young Amos' time. I saw Marthy pushin' him forward and beckonin' to Brother Gyardner like she couldn't wait any longer. "Nobody never did know exactly how it happened.
"Now jest think of a man lookin' down into a little new-born baby's face and talkin' about reprobates! "Marthy heard what he said, and says she, 'Amos, are you goin' to have him babtized in infancy? "'Why, yes, says Amos, 'of course I am. "And Marthy says, 'Well, hadn't you better wait until you find out whether he's a reprobate or not?
However, as I was sayin', Alexander Campbell himself babtized my father and mother out here in Drake's Creek, and I was brought up to think that my church was the Christian church, sure enough. But when me and Abram married, neither one of us was thinkin' much about churches.
Amos, of course, wanted 'em all babtized in infancy, and Marthy wanted 'em immersed when they j'ined the church, and so it went. Amos had his way about the first one, and I never shall forgit the day it was born. I went over to help wait on Marthy and the baby, and as soon as I got the little thing dressed, we called Amos in to see it. Now, Amos always took his religion mighty hard.
The Babtists had a big meetin' that spring, and there was a dozen or more converts to be babtized when it was over. We'd been havin' mighty pleasant weather that March; I ricollect me and Abram planted our potatoes the first week in March, and I would put in some peas. Abram said it was too early, and sure enough the frost got 'em when they was about two inches high.
Old Brother Gyardner got up, and says he, 'Brethren, there's a question that's been botherin' me for some time, and I'd like to hear it discussed and git it settled, if possible; and says he, 'If a man should be babtized accidentally, and against his will, would he be a Babtist? or would he not? And they begun to argue it, and they had it up and down, and some was of one opinion and some of another.
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