" Taking an envelope from his pocket, Mr. Clifton drew forth two small scraps of soiled and crumpled paper, one of which was the half of another envelope presenting very nearly the following appearance: As he pointed this out, he remarked: "Elwood is not so common a baptismal name, that there can be any doubt as to the person addressed.

BAPTISMAL PROMISES.

In Preston, as elsewhere, the majority of people think well of water when it is required by children for engulphing or baptismal purposes; but they care little for its use when the teens have been trotted through.

The baptismal Thermophylae is generally guarded by the sacred 90, and looked at by the fuller 200.

"It's the baptisms," he said: "when a baby is brought for baptism, of course it must have a baptismal gift.

The doctrine of baptismal regeneration pushed to its extreme logical conclusions, as it is by them, leads to rather strange practical consequences.

Parson, he looked half like ez ef he'd laugh once-t. When he had thess opened his book and started to speak, a sudden streak o' sunshine shot out an' the rain started to ease up, an' it looked for a minute ez ef he was goin' to lose the baptismal waters.

His father and mother had given his name,not at the baptismal font, for they were Baptists, and didn't baptize so,but they had given it to him.

Baptismal fonts, now used as holy-water stoups, are probably of anterior workmanship.

UPON A BAPTISMAL OCCASION.

Heaven showed she knew Thee, who Thou wert and whence, Veiling her eyes above the riven earth; The mountains trembled and the seas were troubled: He took the Fathers from hell's darkness dense: The torments of the damned fiends redoubled: Man only joyed, who gained baptismal birth.

The notary used to point out this rough, sacred stone inlaid in a baptismal font of Holy Water.

He it was who had given him at the baptismal font the name which had awakened so much admiration and ridicule among his school companions; with the patience of an old grand-sire narrating saintly stories to his descendants, he would tell Ulysses over and over the adventures of the navigating King of Ithaca for whom he had been named.

SEE BRUECKNER, LEO J. BAPTISMAL RITUAL.

BENZIGER BROS., INC. SEE BAPTISMAL RITUAL.

The baptismal font.

LANGDALE, JOHN W. The baptismal font.

The baptismal font.

BENZIGER BROS., INC. SEE BAPTISMAL RITUAL.

Silver Burdett Co. (PWH); 4May64; R336817. LANGDALE, JOHN W. The baptismal font; a manual for baptized children of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

There she pined in the sickness of hope deferred, in the corroding anguish of dread uncertainty, for a space as wide as that between the baptismal font and presentation at Elizabeth's court.

Then the kail-stock or runt, as it was called in Ayrshire, was placed over the lintel of the door; and the baptismal name of the young man or woman who first entered the door after the kail was in position would be the baptismal name of the husband or wife.

Then the kail-stock or runt, as it was called in Ayrshire, was placed over the lintel of the door; and the baptismal name of the young man or woman who first entered the door after the kail was in position would be the baptismal name of the husband or wife.

Then you wind a rope round the stick and give the two ends of the rope to two persons who must either be brothers or have the same baptismal name.

"He had already immersed one of his royal legs in the baptismal font, when a thought struck him.