"Every parent would like it, I am sure." _Pastor._ Well, we do have some such meetings occasionally, I remember.
"Our minister loves to use parables," said Mrs.Benson, looking at your mother, "so as to make us understand the meaning better, and remember it." "I must ask you to explain," said Mr.Benson.
_Pastor._ As often as we bring a child to the house of God for baptism, Mr.Benson, we have such a meeting, if Christians will but understand it so.

We come with the parents, and say, "Lord God, here is this dear child, with a momentous history pending upon thy favor and blessing.

In all future time, in the critical moments and eventful steps of its life, or in its early death, or in its orphanage, be thou a God to this child." If God should to-night, Mrs.Ford, say to you, "I will be Janette's God," would you not send her away with a light heart?
"He should have her for life, dear child!" said she; "and I do feel that he is a God to her." "He is," said I, "if you have really made a covenant with him about your daughter." "I have, sir," said Mrs.Ford.
_Pastor._ Did the covenant have any seal?
Some good people, you know, think it enough to covenant with God about their children, without using any special act to mark and seal it.

Now it is only in consecrating children to God that they omit the seal from the covenant.

We practise adult baptism, joining the church, confirmation, and we partake of the Lord's Supper, feeling the propriety and the use of acts and testimonies in the form of an ordinance.