I have only answered your polite inquiries.
_Mr.K._ O, I know that; we shall be good friends still; but I see no grounds for baptizing children on the faith of their parents.
_Mr.M._ We look at the thing from different points of view.

I see it as clearly as I see that the church of God is essentially the same in all ages, with its variety of forms.

This matter of children's baptism is with me a spiritual thing, and is independent of dispensations.

You know that a river may have, in one district of the earth through which it flows, one name, and in another district another name, while it is the same river.

Now, the divine recognition of believers' children, as standing in a special covenanted relation with God, is the headspring of infant dedication by the use of a rite.