"Oh, you mean it is the parent that has faith! And do you baptize an infant because the parent has faith?"
"Yes. Either the parent or the god-parent must have faith."
"The god-parent!" exclaimed Dorothy in a puzzled tone. "What is a god-parent?"
"If the child has not a parent, then some Christian man or woman believes for the child and is thus called its god-father or god-mother."
"And so the infant, in order to have baptism, must have some person to believe for it?"
"Yes, my daughter, you catch the idea exactly."
"I thought you said just now that infants ought to be baptized because of their heavenly nature, and now you say they cannot be baptized unless they can get some Christian man or woman to believe for them."
The Doctor for a moment was startled as he saw where his arguments had brought him. He saw in a flash that both of the statements could not be true.
"Doctor, which fact must I accept?" she asked. "Must we baptize infants because of what they are in themselves with their heavenly natures, or must we baptize only those infants who can come and have somebody believe for them?"
"I see your point, and it has a show of logic in it."