He speaks also of the "doctrine of baptisms" (plural), showing the same thing.
But I came near forgetting one thing, which I wished to say, which is, that, in reading the Bible last evening, I found a new encouragement in taking infants to the house of God.
_Mother._ I should like to hear anything new on that point.

I thought that everything had been exhausted which referred to that subject.
_Mr.M._ I mean that it was new to me.

Luke says that the parents of Jesus brought him to Jerusalem "to present him to the Lord," and that, arriving there, they brought him into the temple to do for him after the custom of the law.

Now, I always carelessly thought that this meant circumcision.
_Mother._ Of course it does; I always thought so.
_Mr.M._ No; for he had already been circumcised, when he was eight days old.

"And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, they called his name Jesus." Then the next verse speaks of a subsequent act: "When the days of her purification were accomplished they brought him to Jerusalem." Mary could not have come to Jerusalem on the eighth day; but, on the second occasion, she was present; for Simeon addressed her.