BERTHA AND HER BAPTISM.
By the Author of AGNES AND THE LITTLE KEY; or, BEREAVED PARENTS INSTRUCTED AND COMFORTED.
BOSTON:
S. K. WHIPPLE AND COMPANY,
161 WASHINGTON STREET.
1857.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by S. K. WHIPPLE & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED BY HOBART & ROBBINS, New England Type and Stereotype Foundry, BOSTON.
PREFACE.
THIS book, and that which is also named in the title-page, were written at the same time, and as one book; but they were afterward separated, as more properly constituting two volumes, the part which was the original of the present volume now being greatly enlarged. Thus the two books grew in the author's mind together, from one and the same root,—the death of a little child.
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- CHAPTER I. PROBABILITIES OF AN ORDINANCE FOR CHILDREN, 9
- CHAPTER II. THE GRANDFATHER'S LETTER.—THE NATURE, GROUNDS AND INFLUENCE, OF INFANT BAPTISM, 16
- CHAPTER III. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BAPTISMS.—THE SUBJECTS AND MODE OF BAPTISM, 76
- CHAPTER IV. IS THERE ONLY ONE MODE OF BAPTISM? 121
- CHAPTER V. SCENES OF BAPTISM.—REASONABLENESS, BEAUTY AND POWER, OF INFANT BAPTISM.—USE OF SPECIAL VOWS.—HUSBANDS AT BAPTISMS.—NEGLECT OF BAPTISM, 130
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- CHAPTER VI. TESTIMONY OF THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS.—APOSTOLIC PRACTICE OF INFANT BAPTISM.—MINISTERIAL USAGES IN BAPTISMS, 143
- CHAPTER VII. TERMS OF COMMUNION.—NON-INTRUSION.—DENOMINATIONAL COURTESY AND KINDNESS, 184
- CHAPTER VIII. THE ROAD-SIDE BAPTISM, 198
- CHAPTER IX. THE CHILDREN OF THE CHURCH.—ARE THEY MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH? 216
- CHAPTER X. MATERNAL ASSOCIATIONS.—CONSTITUTION AND RULES FOR THEM.—A CHRISTIAN MOTHER'S QUESTIONS TO HERSELF, 255
- CHAPTER XI. BAPTISM OF THE SICK WIFE AND HER CHILDREN, 272
