Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[David Gilrye Muir]
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Transcription
[2]muddy ink & muddy thoughts will settle to the seriousness or anger that naturally belongs to the subject I do not like the doctrine of close communion as held by hard shells, because the whole clumsy structure of the thing rests upon a foundation of coarse- grained dogmatism - Imperious, bollapright exclusiveness upon any subject is hateful, but it becomes absolutely hideous & empions in matters of religion, where all men are equally interested - I have no patience at all for the man who complacently wipes his pious lips & waves me away from a simple rite which commemorates the love & sacrifice of Christ - telling me "Go out from us for you are not of us", & all this not for want of Christian[3]love on my part, or the practice of self denying virtues in seeking to elevate myself; but simply because in his infallable judgement I am mistaken in the number of quarts of that common liquid we call water which should be made use of in baptism - - - - - - - I think infant baptism by sprinkling or any other mode is a beautiful & impressive ordinance, & however the scrip- ture of the thing is interpreted no parent can be doing an unseemly or unchristian act in dedicating a child to God & taking upon him vows to lead his child in the path that all good people believe in. The baptism of an old sinner is apt to do but little good but the baptism of an infant
Location
Yosemite
Date Original
[1870] Apr 10
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0249-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0249
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
