Heard Mark Lowry share on that tonight on the Gaither Gospel Hour sponsored by Cracker Barrel Cheese, an old rerun. He said, "Baptism was the cleansing and the releasing of the old to make room for the new." He has left the Gaither Band, has been with them for 25 years. He wrote, "Mary Did You Know?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSByshUF3uI