6/12/2023 0 Comments Convert mybible to pdfBenson belonged, it is not considered necessary to baptize infants as early as the ceremony can be performed and many circumstances concurred to cause the solemn thanksgiving and dedication of the child for so these Dissenters looked upon christenings to be deferred until it was probably somewhere about six months old. Denbigh's grace and beauty at the very first sight, when she had accompanied her mother to call upon the Bensons on their return from Wales and had kept up an enthusiastic interest in the widow only a little older than herself, whose very reserve and retirement but added to her unconscious power of enchantment.Ī pang of affright shot through Ruth's heart at these words had she already sinned and made her child into an idol, and was there punishment already in store for her through him? But then the internal voice whispered that God was "Our Father," and that He knew our frame, and knew how natural was the first outburst of a mother's love so, although she treasured up the warning, she ceased to affright herself for what had already gushed forth. Although the second in the family, she had been at school when her younger sisters had been christened, and she was now come, in the full warmth of a girl's fancy, to ask if she might be present at the afternoon's service. Miss Benson was rather surprised to receive a call from Jemima Bradshaw, on the very morning of the day on which little Leonard was to be baptized Miss Bradshaw was rosy and breathless with eagerness.
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