There will be no end to human inventions in religion, if this principle prevails.
_Mr.M._ But, my dear sir, there certainly has been an end at the very beginning; for what inventions in Protestant worship have non-prelatical Paedobaptists made?
Surely that practice has not been prolific of superstitions.

I often hear this alleged, Mr.K., and we are called Romish and Popish because we baptize infants.

But will it not be best for Christian sects to allow each other entire liberty of conscience, and not accuse each other of tendencies to Romanism, when all are zealously Protestant?
Here is a piece, which I cut from a newspaper lately, which describes the baptism by immersion of some females and others, one Sabbath in January, the thermometer below zero, a place being cut through the ice for the purpose, and a boy watching with a pole to keep the floating ice from the opening.

Shall I call this Romish, superstitious, fanatical?
Shall I say, How can we, consistently with such practices among Protestants, say anything about the doctrine of penances?
No.

I prefer to think that those who do these things are as good Protestants as myself, and I will not impeach their rigid adherence to their belief, by imputing Romish tendencies to their modes of worship and their ordinances; for no people are further from Romanism in their principles than they (unless it be some of us Paedobaptists, Mrs.
Kelly).
_Mr.K._ Well, there is no quarrelling with you; but let me say that when another sect sees you employing an ordinance which has no warrant in the Bible,--sprinkling water upon people, on proper subjects and improper subjects for baptism, when we know that the word _baptize_ means to _immerse_, and that believers only are properly baptized,--how can we be silent?
Would you be silent if Episcopalians should set up Latin prayers, or the confessional; or the Methodists turn their love-feasts into the old Passover?
_Mr.M._ We must tolerate the mistakes and errors of those who, in the main, are confessedly good, and are conscientious in what we deem their errors.