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scholars in his day, was drowned in the lake of Zurich, near Zwingli’s church.
… Within the canton of Zurich the usual punishment was drowning, as will
be seen by instances related in the martyrology, published by the Hanserd-
Knollys Society. John Stumpf, a con-temporary of Zwingli in his history of
Switzerland, p. 2444, says: ‘What was worst of all, they, the Ana-baptists,
repeated the baptism … and were rebaptized in the rivers and streams.’
“Again, Kessler, in his Sabbata, vol. 1, p. 266, says that ‘Wolfang Uliman, of
St. Gall, went to Schaffhausen and met Conrad Grebel,’ the most prominent
leader, preacher and scholar among the Anabaptists, ‘who instructed him in
the knowledge of Anabaptism that he would not be sprinkled out of a dish,
but was drawn under and covered over with the water of the Rhine by Conrad
Grebel.’ On p. 268, Kessler adds that Grebel came to St. Gall, Kessler’s
home, where his preaching was attended by hundreds from the town and
surrounding country and the longing desire many had nourished for a year,
was accomplished by following Grebel to the Sitter river and being baptized
by him there. When I was at St. Gall, in 1867, I made special investigation
upon this point. A mountain stream, sufficient for all sprinkling purposes,
flows through the city, but in no place is it deep enough for the immersion of
a person, while the Sitter river is between two and three miles away, and is
gained by a different road. The only solution of this choice was that Grebel
sought the river in order to immerse the candidates. August Naef, secretary of
the council at St. Gall, in a work published in 1850, on p. 1021, speaking of
the practices of Anabaptists, in 1525, says: “They baptized those who
believed with them in rivers and lakes, and in a great wooden cask and the
butchers’ square before a great crowd.’
“These immersions were in Switzerland from 1524-30. An old historian of
Augsburg, Sender, says: The hated sect in 1527 met in the gardens of houses,
men and women, rich and poor, more than 1100 in all, who were rebaptized.
They put on peculiar clothes in which to be baptized, for in the houses where
their bapisteries were, there were a number of garments always prepared.’
“A later historian of Augsburg, Wagenseil, says: ‘In 1527 the Anabaptists
baptized none who did not believe with them; and the candidates were not
merely sprinkled with water but were wholly submerged.’ These are the
testimonies of Pedobaptists.
“Zwingli entitles his great work against the Anabaptists, ‘Elenchus contra
Catabaptistas.’ Catabaptistas, a word of post-classical Greek, according to
Passow and Liddell and Scott, means ‘one who dips or drowns,’ and that
Zwingli uses the word in this signification, is shown by his repeated endeavor
in this work to make all sorts of fun of the baptism of the Anabaptists,
immersion, ‘dying people,’ ‘redying them,’ ‘plunging them into the darkness
of water to unite them to a church of darkness,’ ‘they mersed,’ etc.
“The following I find from the Anabaptists on the mode of baptism. …
Belthazar Hubmeyer, in his treatise on baptism, ‘von dem Christenlichen