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Charles Penrose (1912): "Baptism for the dead—How do we know which of our deceased relatives are to be baptized for"?
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Charles Penrose (1912): "Baptism for the dead—How do we know which of our deceased relatives are to be baptized for"?
Charles W. Penrose, "Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered," Improvement Era Vol. 15, Num. 11 (September 1912):
Question 12: Baptism for the dead—How do we know which of our deceased relatives are to be baptized for, and how do we know when we are to be baptized for them?
Answer: If instead of "we" the questioner had used the word "you," we would answer: Often by personal revelation, always by the law of kindred and genealogy, and the direction of those divinely appointed to administer the ordinances commanded.[1]
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