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your God, and the Holy Scriptures the rule of your faith and 

 practice. You give yourselves up to God, to l)e ^rovernod by 

 His laws, to be guided by His Spirit, and to be saved by His 

 gracp, promising to receive the pure doctrines of tli(! goH[)el, 

 and to be henceforth the followers of Christ. 



The candidate will i-espond, "7 fto." 



THE COVENANT OF BAPTISM. 



You, who are children of the covenant by the consecration of 

 Christian parents, do you gratefully own that covenant and 

 accept for yourselves the seal of Baptism, to which you were 

 brought in the arms of faith and love in your infancy ? 



Those who were baptized in infancy will respond, "/rfo." 



You who now enter into the everlasting covenant of grace, 

 do you humbly yield yourselves to God in Baptism, as the seal 

 of your covenant with God in Christ and the sign of the renewal 

 wrought in you by the Holy Spirit ? 



Those who have not been baptized will respond, "/rfo," and the minister calling 

 each one by the Christian name shall baptize them, saying: 



A. B. : I haptize thee into the Name of the Father, and of the 

 Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. 



THE FELLOWSHIP OP THE CHURCH, 



Beloved in the Lord : do you cordially seek the fellowship 

 of this Church of Christ, engaging to walk with us in Christian 

 charity and helpfulness, to unite with us in the worship of God 

 and the ordinances of the Gospel, and to labor with us for the 

 salvation of our fellow men ? 



The candidate will answer, " / do.'' The members of the Church will then rise and 

 remain standing to the end. 



We, then, do receive you to be members with us of the visi- 

 ble Church, and in token thereof we rise about you and by this 

 right hand of fellowship welcome you with joy to this com- 

 munion of Christian love. We give thanks to God for you : we 

 promise to treat you with Christian affection, tg watch over 

 and help you, and to offer our prayers that the great Head of 



