The Ministry of Robert and James Haldane | The Narrated Puritan

In the year 1807, James Haldane, after having sprinkled an infant, was accosted by his little son, a child of six years old, with the pertinent question, “Father, did that child believe?” “No,” said the surprised parent, “why do you ask me such a question?” “Because, father, I have read the whole of the New Testament, and I find that all who were baptised, believed. Did the child believe?” It was enough. God’s simple truth, which had been hidden from the wise and prudent, was revealed to the babe. The strange question, “Did the child believe?” haunted the mind of that father, until, after a thorough examination, he renounced his former errors, and was publicly immersed. His brother Robert soon followed his example." Quoted in Alexander Carson, Baptism, its Mode and Subjects.

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