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Bertha and Her Baptism

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Besides, there is nothing dry about it, as I view the subject.

It is one of the most beautiful things in religion.
_Mrs.Benson._ It is next to the Lord's Supper, I always thought, if people take the right view of it.
_Pastor._ It makes you love God the Father in some such way as the Lord's Supper makes you love the Saviour.

I think, sometimes, that the baptism of children is our heavenly Father's Sacrament.
_Mr.B._ I like that; but there is so much to study and learn about the "Abrahamic covenant," that I feel a little discouraged.

I have had books lent me on the Abrahamic covenant, and I began to read them; but they looked hard; so I told my wife that perhaps you would make the thing more clear, and bring it home to our feelings, and that we would come and get your ideas about it.
_Pastor._ How glad I am that you came! But tell me what you take the Abrahamic covenant to mean.
_Mr.B._ I suppose it means that God told Abraham to circumcise his children, and infant baptism comes in the place of it, and we must do it if we are Abraham's spiritual children.

But I wish to see the use of it.
I am willing to do it, but I should like to feel it more; and I want to know how baptism comes in the place of circumcision, and a great many other things.
_Pastor._ I think that you may possibly have what may be called some Jewish notions about the Abrahamic covenant, though I trust you are right in the main.


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