Mark Twain tells the story...
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Mark Twain tells the story in one of his books of a slave who went to sleep one night on a narrow neck of land in Missouri that jutted out into the Mississippi River. That night, there was a great storm, and the river cut a new channel, right through the neck of land. When the slave awoke the next morning, he found himself not in Missouri, but in Illinois -- a free man! The rushing water had freed him. The same can be said of the living water of Christian baptism.
