"It is this: Immersion cannot be right, for it would make infant baptism impossible."
"Infant baptism," exclaimed Dorothy with a very puzzled look. "You don't mean that you baptize infants?"
"Certainly."
"Why do you baptize infants?" asked Dorothy, with an expression almost of horror on her face.
"It is one of the sacred ordinances of the church and is really one of the most beautiful and effective."
"Do you mean little children just two or three years old?" asked Dorothy.
"Yes, indeed, and often only a few weeks old. Where have you been that you have never heard of infant baptism?"
"I never heard of it. You know I have been to church very little in my life and have known almost nothing about church matters and have had no one to tell me. I am very sorry it has been so, for I feel I have missed a great deal. But, Mr. Sterling, I do not remember seeing anything in the Bible about sprinkling infants. I must have overlooked it."
"You must have overlooked it, for it is taught very plainly."
"Infant baptism?" she said in a questioning, puzzled tone. "Mr. Sterling, the little infants do not know what you are doing to them. I thought the baptism of a person was a picture of what had already taken place in that person. It looks strange to baptize an infant, and besides I should think you would drown the little things to put them under the water."