SPRINKLING IS SCRIPTURAL A Reply to the Baptist Adamthwaite's "Baptism is Immersion!" by Rev. Prof. Dr. Francis Nigel Lee (M.A., M.Soc.Sc., Th.D., Ph.D., D.Min., D.Ed., LL.D.) "Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring or sprinkling water upon the person.... It be a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance!" Westminster Confession, 28:3-5. ********************************************************* "Baptism  is  Immersion!"  Such  is  the  triumphant  title  of  a  recent  archaeological article.   It   appeared   from   the   hand   of   the   noted   Australian   Baptist,   Murray Adamthwaite. That article has now gone forth into all the world. For it was published in Britain, and   circulated   internationally.   See   the   May-June   1989   issue   of   the   magazine Reformation Today.¹ That magazine ¾ itself a noted vehicle for Baptistic propaganda ¾ has had a past history  of  regularly  extolling  immersionism.  The  above-mentioned  recent  issue,  has compounded this tendency. Yet  the  Holy  Bible  does  not  suggest  the  ceremony  of  submersion.  Instead,  ever since  the  creation  and  fall  of  man,  it  repeatedly  teaches  the  symbolic  cleansing  of people (as well as of things) ¾ by pouring or sprinkling! *       *       *       *       *       *       * What, in Sacred Scripture, is the significance of sprink-ling? From small springs of liquid   such   as   running   water,   it   suggests   the   dripping   of   drops   of   rain-like refreshment. This is clearly taught in both the Older and the Newer Testaments of the infallible Word of God.                                                 1 Ed. Erroll Hulse (75 Woodhill Rd., Leeds LS16 7BZ, British Isles), pp 30-41.