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Evening Star, Issue 18057, 26 August 1922, Page 3

A Baptist minister who practised immersion was asked, according to ‘ Judge,’ to fell what was his most awkward experience. He said: “One Sunday afternoon I was to have an immersion in the river on the outskirts of town. A great crowd had assembled. There were two candidates for baptism. One was an extraordinarily tall woman, coming almost up to my own 6ft Sin in height. The other was a little runt of a man hardly sft tall. When it came time for tha ceremony I took the towering lady by the arm, intending to immerse her first, and' told the little man to follow us. The lady and I had gone into the water until it was about up to our waists, when I heard very improper tittering among the spectators. Looking back to discover the cause of this untimely levity, I beheld the little candidate for baptism coming along—swimming I”