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CEREMONY OF BAPTISM. 507
terests require it, she may justly call on us to peril fortune and
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W. M. The child, owing to the great Architect of the Universe
life in her service ; that patriotism is with reason accounted the
most illustrious of virtues, and the patriot the most eminent of
men ; and with equal reason the traitor has in all ages been
deemed execrable.
its existence, its senses that make it to enjoy, its intellect that en-
, ables it to acquire knowledge, surrounded everywhere by his
blessings, ought to be taught in its earliest years to revere and
love him, as the author of all the goodness, affection, generosity,
and loving-kindness that display themselves in his creatures.
Teach it that it is in loving those qualities in others, it loves God;
and that, loving him, it should try to do that only of which he
will approve. It is his love for it that is reflected in the bosom
of its mother. It is his affection for it, bis pity when it suffers.
that speak in the eyes of its playmates.
PRAYER
Almighty and Incomprehensible Intelligence, of the perfection
of whose nature and the plenitude of whose love and tenderness
we in vain endeavor to conceive by the ideal which each fashiona
for himself of the Absolutely Perfect, the Absolute Good, the
Absolute and Perfect Mercy, Pity, and Love, and whose un-
imaginable and immeasurable perfections in that infinitely lower
Ideal we devoutly worship and love, enable us to read, though
imperfectly, yet not wrongly, and in a mistaken sense contrary to
thy truth, the lessons of duty which thou hast written in thy magnificent
hieroglyphics, expressions of thy will, thy thought, and
thy affections, on the great pages of the wondrous book of the
to these children, to our own, and to all whom the law
universe ;
of duty has placed, or may in any wise place, under our charge,
give to all of us who are here present, resolution to fulfil all the
duties which by thy law that character and relation create and
impose upon us. Amen !
All So mote it be.
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W M. Brother Master of Ceremonies, let these children