e baptism,
showing that their baptism in childhood has been followed by conversion.
The fewness of adult baptisms, with us, compared with cases of infant
baptism, is a good sign. They will be fewer and fewer, in proportion as
our parents make and keep covenant with God for their children.

Mr. Kelly was at this moment called out, but requested me to remain and
finish the conversation with Mrs. K. She resumed it, saying:

"Had I better read any more on the subject? My feelings lead me
strongly to take our little one to church. I feel that I should be
strengthened by the solemn act of doing what the covenant of your church
says, 'avouching the Lord Jehovah to be your God and the God of your
children forever.' I do wish to feel that I have done something like
bearing testimony before God, in a special way, that I give my child to
him, and engage God to be his God."

_Mr. M._ I should candidly examine whatever Mr. K. wishes you to read or
hear on the subject, and not be afraid of the truth, let it lead where
it may. But what first made you think of baptizing your little boy?

_Mrs. K._ I always loved the ordinance. But, when I thought that Henry
was going to die, I was watching him all night, and, as I was praying,
it occurred to me that I wished I could see the church praying for him;
and that led me to think of the church praying for a child when it is
brought into the house of God. I felt that night that, if I could speak
to the pastor, I would ask him to request the prayers of the church for
him as for one who, if he got well, should be brought into the house of
God, and be publicly consecrated, and I with him, again, as his mother,
to the Lord. I had given him and myself to God; but I felt the need of
some more special act, on which I could fall back in my thoughts, and of
which God would graciously say to me, "I am the God of Bethel, where
thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me."

_Mr. M._ How kind it was in God to remind Jacob of that pile of stones,
and to call himself the God of Bethel! O, how he loves marked exercises
of consecration and love!

_Mrs. K._ My husband always said, "Let him offer himself for baptism
when he grows up, and understands the meaning of it." I told him that
when I was admitted to the church I was not baptized, but I had this
pleasant feeling, that I had a baptism in infancy by my dear good mother
to think of now, and to seal by my own acknowledgment. If Henry