If marking the flesh in some way should be appointed to succeed baptism, we need not look for a likeness between it and baptism before we complied with the divine requirement." "I do wish," said Mrs.Benson, "that the authority to baptize children were more expressly stated in the Bible, to satisfy all who were not brought up as we have been." _Pastor._ The overwhelming majority of those who now receive the Bible as the word of God find it there.
_Mrs.Benson._ But why did not Paul receive a revelation about it, as he did about the Lord's Supper?
_Pastor._ Did that make the thing any more authoritative with us than the original appointment?
We will not prescribe to God how to teach us.
We will not make up our minds how he ought to have made a revelation, but we will take that revelation and try to understand it.
"I agree to that," said they all.
_Pastor._ It appears to me that God prefers, on certain subjects, that the world shall reason by inferences.

It is a wise way of educating children and youth, to leave some things to be learned in this way, and not by setting everything before them, like too many examples in the arithmetic wrought out.
We have changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day in the week.

It gives me a sublime idea of our Sabbath, that by some great, silent alteration, it has come to pass that all the world keep the day of Christ's resurrection, instead of the day which commemorated the work of creation.

I feel toward it as I do with regard to the noiseless changes of the seasons, and the conformity of our habits and practices to them.

I left New York late in winter for the Azores, and, before I expected it, the warm southern airs came one morning into my cabin window.