We are baptized with, not in, the Holy Ghost.

It would do violence to our feelings to hear one speak of our being immersed in the Holy Spirit.

So that I fully believe in sprinkling as the original New Testament mode of baptism.

And, still, I am inclined to agree with your friend, the professor, who spent New-year's evening with us, and has just published a book on baptism.
_Mother._ What ground does he take?
_Mr.M._ He writes somewhat in this way: As to the mode, I believe it to be unessential; for it seems to me contrary to the genius of Christianity to make a particular form of doing a thing essential to the thing.

What else is there in Christianity, if we are to except baptism, in which modes are regarded or made essential?
It is not so, he says, with the Lord's Supper, surely; the upper room, night, sitting or reclining, unleavened bread, a particular kind of wine, and all such things, are not regarded by any as necessary to the ordinance.