After a few words of mutual inquiry and answer, he said: "Wife and I, sir, thought that we would make bold to come and trouble you a little to tell us about baptizing our boy.

He is getting to be four months old, and we are not willing to put it off much longer.
Still, we would like to know the grounds of it a little better.

People, you know, do not think much about it till it comes to be a case in hand.
"But I do not know," said he, looking round on your mother and the children, "but that we do wrong to take this time for it.

It will be rather a dry subject for these young friends to hear." _Pastor._ Not at all.

They owe too much to what was done for them when they were little children, to dislike it.