INFANT BAPTISM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 912, 1 November 1910, Page 4

INFANT BAPTISM.

SUPERSTITIOUS NOTIONS. A Church of England clergyman at an evangelical conference in Sydney referred to the haphazard way people brought up children to be baptised, and the superstitious notions some parents had on the matter. One minister said people had told him that their reason for having their children baptised was that the children throve better after baptism, and therefore they would like to have them “done” early. Several clergymen spoke of the need for having baptism always performed on Sundays at the church service. The Rev, Begbie said when he had objected to baptising children on week days parents said, “We will go to the Methodists. They will do it.” “If they want to do that,” he said, “let them go,” Some people who had a superstitious fe.ar on the subject of baptism said to him, “ We wanted to come here because it is a lucky church.” Another speaker mentioned that some Presbyterian ministers would not baptise children unless both parents attended at the public service when the sacrament took place.