This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Where is it mothers learn their love ? In every church a fountain springs, O'er which the eternal Dove Hovers on softest wings. Oh, happy arms, where cradled lies, And ready for the Lord's embrace, That precious sacrifice, The darling of his grace Blest eyes, that see the smiling gleam Upon the slumbering features glow, When the life-giving stream Touches the tender brow But happiest ye who sealed and blest Back to your arms your darling take, With Jesus' mark impressed, To nurse for Jesus' sake. By whom Love's daily touch is seen In strengthening form and freshening hue, In the fixed brow serene, The deep, yet eager view. Oh, tender gem and full of heaven Not in the twilight stars on high, Not in moist flowers at even, See we our God so high. Sweet one, make haste and know him too, Thine own adopting Father love, That like thine earliest dew, Thy dying sweets may prove." Keble. How impressive is the baptism of an infant To parents, no rite can be more affecting. Their little lamb belongs to the flock which has broken from the fold, and is perishing in the wilderness. If through infinite love, the parents have been led to return, they cannot leave their little one a wanderer. They bring it with them to the temple of the Lord, and lay it at the. feet of the Good Shepherd, beseeching him to take it in his arms, and to restore it to his fold. By asking for it the rite of Baptism, they acknowledge HOLY BAPTISM. that it needs the cleansing of blood, ?the baptism of the Spirit, of which that by water is typical. And by the affixing of this precious seal of the covenant, its blessings are secured to their child, on condition of their faithful performance of the duties of the covenant. By this ordina...