To prepare people for baptism without teaching about the gift of the Holy Ghost is like a sacrament meeting where only the bread is blessed and passed. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half-that is, the baptism of the Holy Ghost” ( History of the Church, 5:499). Joseph Smith said: “You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost.
I will give some direction and suggestions as to how we can do things better in order that each member of the Church will be thoroughly converted and never will fall away. My purpose is to teach you through doctrine and scripture why it is that we do things as we do.
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