p. 559 | How It Was Told by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 13, 1883

How It Was Told.

By Editor

THE following interesting item we clip from “denominational” news:—

“A young Jewess residing at Pesth was lately about to marry, and when she was putting her papers in order it was discovered that, without the knowledge of her mother, she had been baptized shortly after birth, with the connivance of the midwife. The mother thereupon made representations against the validity of the baptism, but the minister of public worship, agreeing with the ecclesiastical authorities, decided that the act was perfectly legal and that the girl was a Christian.”

Quite similar to the process in this country. Many a person is “made a Christian” in infancy, without his or her knowledge or consent, and the only possible method of finding out the fact is to look up the records. If the “Religious Amendment” would only make provision to sprinkle the whole population of the United States, what a deal of labor it would save in efforts to evangelize the people by the slow and uncertain process of preaching and teaching. But they have in contemplation a plan equally efficient and certain. It is to be taken as sufficient evidence of Christian character that a person keeps Sunday. This is the “one thing needful” which will hide a multitude of sins.