'A. Jesus.

'J. G. P. And He sent His Apostles to baptize in the Name of Whom?

'Dead silence.

'"Why do you wish to be baptized?"

'"To live."

'"All that Jesus has done for us, and given to us, and taught us, is
for that object. What is the particular benefit we receive in
baptism?" 'No conception.' Such is their state.

'I would not hesitate if I thought there were any implicit
recognition of the doctrine of the Trinity; but I can't baptize
people morally good who don't know the Name into which they are to be
baptized, who can't tell me that Jesus is God and man. There is a
lad who soon must die of consumption, whom I now daily examine. He
has not a notion of any truth revealed from above, and to be embraced
and believed as truth upon the authority of God's Word. A kind of
vague morality is the substitute for the Creed of the Apostles. What
am I to do? I did speak out for three days consecutively pretty
well, but I am alone, and only here for four months, and yet, I fear,
I am expecting too much from them, and that I ought to be content
with something much less as the (so to speak) qualifications; but
surely they ought to repent and believe. To say the word, "I
believe," without a notion of what they believe, surely that won't
do. They must be taught, and then baptized, according to our Lord's