The story of Professor Ira Pointer continues, as one of the doctrinal students at the seminary, a Presbyterian pastor, asks him to help him understand the Baptist view of baptism, so that he might write a doctrinal dissertation on the subject at the school. After laying some ground rules of the necessity of gracious objectivity with no pressure to convert to the other’s position, Dr. Pointer and the student spend hours together seeking to understand the views and their differences. Through the experience, they both learn to respect one another, as well as the other’s theological viewpoint on the subject. At the same time, Ira and Dink are pulled into one of the most puzzling crimes of their experience. A mysterious pastor appears in Ira’s office with a spirit of revenge, wanting to know if he can take justice into his own hands and deal with those he knows have wronged him. He just as mysteriously disappears without giving Ira his name or address, which action begins a search by Ira and Dink to find him before he carries out his plan and act of revenge.
