Though we are saved wholly by grace, is there not something implied in "washing our robes, and making them white, in the blood of the Lamb ?" I do not believe in justification by works nor by sacraments, yet I do believe in their wonderful effect, through grace alone, upon our character and future condition.

I do believe, Mr.M., that there is a difference between children whose parents, impelled by love to God, make public offering of their children to him, with solemn vows, and daily perform their vows, treating their children as baptized in the name of the Trinity, and children whose parents either carelessly baptize them, or feel no such spiritual desires for them as to seek the use of any public ordinance, nor any special private consecration.

I believe that God regards them differently.

He has placed his mark on the baptized.

I must go with my son to God's house, as Hannah did, and with her feelings.