Peter understood this when he said, “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out” (Acts 3:19). Conversion is one of the essentials of salvation, and should therefore be considered an essential to admission: into the Church. Paul was baptized after the scales had dropped from his eyes. Cornelius and his house were baptized after there were undoubted evidences that they had received the light. It is an injustice, both to the Church and to the applicant, to receive any one