Excerpt from Village Sermons: On the Baptismal Service Not a sore, not a sickness in our life, but she is there to heal it: not a hope, not a blessing, but she is there to make it' doubly blessed. Oh! Happy and comfortable indeed are they, who go on in this faith from their cradles to their graves accounting it their greatest privilege, that Christ died to receive them, newly-born, in His Arms their chief help, that whatever happens to them for joy or for sorrow, He still holds their hands; and their best and only hope, that, whenever they die, He will be at hand, enabling them to Offer their death as well as their life in sacrifice to Him. I am sure, my beloved Brethren, it must do us much good, if we can get into a way of thinking deeply and steadily on these things: remembering all our life long, that, whatever happens to us, the Church our Mother is at hand to turn it into a great blessing. Therefore I intend, please God, to go on from time to time in a course of regularly ex plaining some of the occasional Services of the Church; and of course I begin with Baptism, because Baptism is the beginning, the first thing whereby each one of us has to do with the Church of God. Now we all know in a general way, out of the Catechism, what Holy Baptism is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.