"No, they seemed to know very little about Christ's attitude towards children."
"Let me ask this question, Doctor," said Dorothy. "You spoke of the heavenly nature of the infant. When an infant is baptized and grows up, does the baptism cause the heavenly nature to stay with the child?"
"Not necessarily."
"What good, then, does the baptism do? Do you mean that a baptized infant might grow up to be a fearful villain?"
"Yes, it is possible."
"Well, do the baptized infants have a less tendency to sin than the unbaptized infants?"
"No. I can't say that the baptism itself has any effect on the infant. Neither does it have any effect on the grown person that is baptized and disgraces his baptism received in later life."
"But is there not this difference, that in the case of grown people you baptize only those who desire baptism, but in the case of infants you do not make such distinction?"
"It seems to me," said the father, "that the important question is, who in the Bible are commanded to be baptized? Does the Bible say that infants must be baptized or not?"
"No," replied the Doctor, "it does not say that."