The Church and Her Children

slacken his running, or shorten his kite-string. Little Samuel, even at Shiloh, must have had some childhood sports outside the tabernacle. Many an adult Samuel, as well as Hannah and Elkanah, passing for sedate and devout church-members, are pleased with a span, and lawn, and brilliant table-service, which are only the adult kite and top and oar. Possibly more fatherly and motherly attention, in the line of juvenile enjoyments, would have saved Hophni and Phinehas. With no unjust reflections on any Eli, ancient or modern, it might be suggested, that, if some good men would tremble more for the necessary and suitable recreations of their little ones, they would have less cause in old age to tremble for the ark of God.

But our discussion, expanded and itemized, comes to its conclusion. This examination of the stones of Zion has been full of interest, and we confess to its ending with regrets. Stones so laid of God, and in family strata, and on which the most of the beautiful and comfortable and hopeful in this world has been builded, and is to be, beget a study full of the deepest emotions.

Among these ancient foundations, we have found Abraham building in faith, and David in triumphant song, and Isaiah in glowing prophecy. We have walked about Zion with the Johns, harbinger and evangelist, and with the saints, Peter and Paul, and counted the towers thereof. Under the arches, and on the towers and goodly battlements, we have

found Irenæus and Origen, Chrysostom and Augustine; and our own men of yesterday, Luther and Calvin and Edwards.

Indeed, we have been in a company of notables; for if we run over the catalogue of the world's worthies, starring the names that have given cheerful color and warmth to the pages of history, by the humanities and philanthropies and virtues of all higher life, we shall find that the foot-note to each star is, "This and that man was born in her."

INDEX.

ARRAHAM, and the founding of the Church, 12.

and the two covenants with, civil and religious, 13–25.

66 The children of; spiritual, not lineal, 20, 21.

ALEXANDER and his unfortunate teacher, 331.

AMBROSE of Milan, Testimony of, 194-197.

ARETHUSA and her son Chrysostom, 335.

APOSTLES, The, as related to Old and New Dispensation, 136–141.
APOSTOLIC practice equal to a command of Christ, 65, 66.

AUGUSTINE, The baptism of, 212–214.

66 on infant church-membership, 295.

BAPTISM and circumcision connected and contrasted, 60-64, 216-

218, 221-229.

and circumcision, The different offices of, 87.

of female proselytes, 83, 84.

of households, common before Apostolic times, 136.

of infants among the Jews, 84.

of infants, Evidence of, within eighty years of Apostolic
times, 244-256, 280.

of infants, if in common use will not be much mentioned
by authors, 154-156, 171, 172, 175, 176.

infant; not time enough to introduce as a forgery, 168,
169, 226-229.

66 infant. The Pelagians had great reason to deny if pos-

sible, 172.

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341

BAPTISM, infant, Many and varied early evidences of, 192, 193.

infant, Many terms or expressions for, 197, 201.

infant, not mentioned by early fathers for eighty years,

and this objection considered, 257–272.

of John, what, 67-70.

of John no novelty, 71-79.

of proselytes by the Jews, 83-88.

Jewish and Christian discriminated, 216–219.
not prominent in the New Testament, 258.

would not be much discussed by early writers, 266, 267.
BAPTISMS of the Jews, 71-90.

BAPTIZED child, The, divinely located, 297, 298.

child, Much expected for, of God, 298, 299.

child, The regeneration of, to be expected, 299, 300.
children, The claim of, on the Church, 322, 323.
children, The neglect of, by the Church, 301-312.
children, What can the Church do for, 313-317.
children should make a distinct class, 315, 316, 323.
children should attend the preparatory lectures, 316, 317.

66 children, The ancient treatment of, 318-329.

"BAPTIZED unto Moses: " what, 77-79.

"BAPTIZING them:" what, 99-106.

BAPTIZING no novelty to the eleven, 100-106.

BAPTIST theory of Abrahamic covenants, 33-36.

BAPTIST theory of a second church, 26-36.

BASIL, Testimony of, 198.

66 The baptism of, 208-210.

BIBLICAL argument for infant baptism, Summary of, 150-153.
BIBLIOTHECA Sacra, Theory of, on "renascuntur in Deum," 254.
BÜNSEN and the baptized children, 319–321.

CANDIDATES for the Church, and a church school for them, 323-
329.

CANOES, The two in Minnesota, 330, 331.

CARTHAGE, Councils of: A.D. 253, pp. 221-229; A.D. 397, pp.
188-190; A.D. 400, pp. 187, 188; A.D. 416, p. 170; A.D. 418,
p. 171.

CATECHUMENS, Ancient treatment of, by the Church, 286-288.
The ancient, and should be restored, 323-329.

CHILDREN and their amusements, 338, 339.

Are the rights of, infringed by baptism, 289–291.
baptized, The position of, in the Church, 297-300.
baptized, Relations of, to the Church, 282–296.
have no life separable from family life, 43-47.

if omitted from first Christian Church, would occasion
great disputes, 139.

if not omitted, little would be said of them, 143.
included in ancient covenants of God, 40-42.
Little provision for, in church service, 303–307.
members of the Church before Christ, 138.
Modern treatment of, 288-291.

of the Church, The. Who have they been, 339, 340.
Objections to baptizing, considered, 107–124, 142, 143.
Relations of, unchanged in change from Jewish to
Christian Dispensation, 131-135.

The, and Christ, 125-130.

The, should be secured in public worship, 315–317.
Will the apostles baptize, 102-106.

CHRIST, The silence of, on infant church-membership, 131-135.
CHRISTIAN Review of Abrahamic covenant, 33-36.

66 scholars few in the second century, 260-262.

writings, The few that remain from the second cen-
tury, 266.

CHRYSOSTOM and his mother, 335.

CHURCH, Additions to, in apostolic age by families, 293.

66 Members of, originally, 40-42.

The constitution of, not open to amendment, 282-286.

66 The, founded on families, 292.

The increase of, till lately, by families, 293–296.

The, has different phases, though one, 59.

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