Show how general grant ass wa ns baptized the charge th that at bishop newman baptized general grant while the tat latter was unconscious Is denied most emphatically by the bishop bl alop the charge was made as follows by the tha journal and messenger baptist of i while general grant waa unconscious i doctor now bishop 13 new win hastened and got a bowl of water onil and rubbed some ot at it on his face declaring that he then and there baptized hurt hin we do not want our Aleth methodist odist baehren br ehren to forget that performance it ought ito be kept vividly before the mind of all 2111 who ask r bout general grant mil and all who want to understand about the methodist Ileth odIst church general grant was ivas baptized by a subsequent bishop if f the methodist epis episcopal opal church while lie he was lis unconscious lie ile lived some time after but the best that the christian advocate can say of him Is that lie ho professed to believe la in jesus christ art and in the christian reli ralls giorl lon ga gave ve binany evidences evidence that he did ald but avas not a communicant or member of 0 bany any branch of the christian church 11 the editor of the independent hs b as interrogated bishop newman on the subject and the bishops reply appears sn n the independent of december as follows my ily answer to the above aro s mh representation of a solemn fat and an assault upon the mode a of I 1 baptism practiced by the whole christian chrisi church excepted la is this at 5 in the morning on april 2 issa in lih late residence in new york city in the presence of his family his physicians and his ants ts I 1 baptized general Geri eral grant gran t who was in full possession of ilia his mental poe po powers e andaas and was intelligently cons conscious IOUs of the solemnity of the sacred rite referring ne ferring to my daily journal of said month I 1 transcribe there from as fol iowa thursday april 2 watched wl with h the ithe general all night at 5 a irl colonel grant came into the parlor whore where I 1 was sitting bitting and said come there was a solemn in that ilia word all supposed that the general was dying wrapped in his silk bilk robe with acors a worsted cap upon his head the great soldier reclined in a 0 large armchair arm arrn chair his pulse was feeble his brow old cold and ai an i oppressive stillness prevailed As I 1 entered the sick room arg airs grant and sirs ira corban the generals slater sister said to roe me doctor the t he general has haa not been baptized and we v e wish you t to 0 baptize bapis him now I 1 consulted h his is sons end and to his wife and sons I 1 replied 1 11 I will viii baptize him if lie he la Is conscious I 1 cannot baptize an unconscious man all answered wo ive believe he Is conscious we all knelt lanel around the chair ind as I 1 beau to pray the general opened his eyes sund and looked looke 3 steadily at me As his physic physicians lani th thought ou ht that he could not live five minutes manu lea longer I 1 prayed that god would receive his departing soul but a grateful surprise awaited alval ted us I 1 then approached the general and spoke to him about his hia ba baptism p when he replied 1 I am obliged to a you doctor I 1 had intended to take that step myself rm in tile the meantime colonel grant had brought in a silver bowl full of water and with the generals expressed wish I 1 baptized the it 11 sufferer in the name of tho father and of tho the son and of the holy ghost ile he was fully conscious and with his own hawd hand wiped awa away he water that had run down upon his face sly my journal Is too lengthy to transcribe all the eventful scenes in that sick room which occur occurred red during the four months he survived hla his baptism it Is enough to remark that a few days this memorable event I 1 spent two ours bouts with general grant in religious rc and asked him it if he le ic called the scenes of hla big baptism to which he replied yes perfectly ard is you came into the room I 1 wo wondered rhy they had bad called you at that hour jt if the night to my remark all AH thought you had bad not ilvo minutes to live he gave this characteristic answer awer 1 I knew I 1 was very low but I 1 did not intend to die my work la Is not done three times I 1 havo have been raised from the valley vaclev and shadow of at death during four months he lived and suffered reviewed his first volume and wrote the second volume of that great monumental work reflects his him fine literary taste and the nobility of his |