We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion in the water of a believer, into the name of the Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit, to show forth, in a solemn and beautiful emblem, our faith in the crucified, buried, and risen savior, with its effect in our death to sin and resurrection to a new life, that it is a prerequisite to the privileges of a church relation, and in the Lord’s Supper, in which the members of the church, by the sacred use of bread and wine, are to commemorate together the dying, love of Christ, proceeded always by solemn self-examination.