T. P. GARNIER, M.A.,

Rector of Cranworth and Southburgh, Norfolk, Author of
"The Parish Church," "Church or Dissent," &o.

"He shall drink of the brook in the way, therefore shall he lift
up the head."-Ps. cx, 7.

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HARRISON AND SONS,

PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY,
ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

III. Baptism (Its Essentials)

IV. Baptism (The Entrance into the Kingdom)

XI. Godparents

XII. Confirmation or the Laying on of Hands..

XIII. The Grace of Confirmation..

XIV. The Holy Communion (Its Essentials)
XV. The Holy Communion (The Service)

XVI. The Holy Communion (The Feast on the Sacrifice)

XVII. The Lord's Supper

XVIII. The Holy Communion (The Communion of Saints)

XIX. The Communion of the Sick

XX. Spiritual Communion

XXI. The Holy Communion (Unworthy Reception)

XXII. Sacraments a part of the Gospel

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[This Reader may also be used as a Book of Instructions for
Confirmation and Communicants' Classes, or as a Lending Book.]

I

MEANS OF GRACE.

Mr. FOSTER, the Rector, was returning home through the wood and he stopped at the woodman's cottage to remind Mrs. Chapman that next Sunday was Baptism Sunday. He met her coming from the well with a pail in her hand.

After a few inquiries about her well-being, he began, "I hope you are going to bring the children on Sunday, to be baptized, as you promised."

Mrs. Chapman said she hoped to do so, only would Mr. Foster speak to Chapman about it as he had been talking a deal about it, and though he was willing, seeing that Baptism was commanded in the Bible, still he could not get it clear that it was to do any good. "You'll find him up the wood, Sir," she added," he is felling a big oak-tree just off the path." So Mr. Foster went forward, and soon came within sound of the woodman's axe.

"Well, Chapman," he said, "you have a long job before you, so you can spare a minute to talk to me. Your wife tells me you want to ask a question or two about Baptism. Let me try if I can make it clear."

"You see, Sir," said Chapman, resting on his axe, "I can see it's commanded in the Bible, and, in one way, that is enough for me. But I should like to get at the rights of it. There are folks that say it is to do a deal for the children, and there are others that think it is all very proper, but that it can't make any difference to their souls."

"I think I understand you," said Mr. Foster, "it is like this oak-tree before us. There is that thick ivy stem that runs up it, which may be, perhaps, 50 years old,"