Q. Into how many parts would you divide the Catechism?

A. Into five, namely, the Baptismal Vow, the Creed, the Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and the Sacraments.

Q. Do you see the connection of the four last parts with the first? For instance, is the Creed connected with the Baptismal Vow?

A. Yes; I promised that I would believe all the Articles of the Christian faith.

Q. What do you mean by the Christian faith?

A. All that which a Christian believes.

Q. What do you mean by Articles? A. Portions of the faith, or of the truth taken from Scripture.

Q. How are the Commandments connected with the Baptismal Vow?

A. I promised that I would keep and walk in God's Holy Will and Commandments.

Q. How is the Lord's Prayer connected with the Baptismal Vow?

A. Because I cannot believe and do as I promised by my godfathers and godmothers, unless I have special grace or help from God, which must be asked.

Q. Why is the Lord's Prayer taught you?

A. Because it includes all my wants, temporal and spiritual, and is a pattern for all prayer.

Q. How are the Sacraments connected with the Baptismal Vow? A. They are means of grace.

Q. Can you tell me anything of them?

A. They show me how I became, and how I can continue a dear child of God.

(NOTE.-Make the children separately tell the parts of the Catechism, and how they are connected with the Baptismal Vow.)

Q. How does the Catechism begin?
A. With asking my name.

Q. What has your name to do with religious instruction?

A. It was given me at the time of my new and spiritual birth, when I began the new life in Christ Jesus. Q. When was that?

A. At my Baptism.

Q. How many names, even if you have many names before your surname, does the Church account you to have? A. Only two, my Christian name and surname.

Q. From whom and when did you get your surname ?

A. From my parents, when I was born.

Q. From whom and when did you get your Christian name?

A. From my godfathers and godmothers, when I was baptized. Q. Who are they?

A. Friends of the family, who in the name of the Church present children to the minister to be baptized and received into the Church.

Q. Is this office mentioned in Scrip

ture?

A. No; but it is a custom that can be traced back to the times almost of the Apostles.

Q. Is it positively necessary in order to admit a child into the Church by baptism?

A. Not positively necessary, but it is an order of the Church, and most safe. Q. How so?

A. Because thereby three friends besides the parents are pledged to see that the baptized child be taught and brought up as a Christian child ought to be.

Q. Was it altogether a new thing to have a name coupled with a religious rite?

A. No; it was customary among the Jews.

Q. How so?

A. At the time of circumcision.
Q. At what age?

A. Eight days old.

Q. When, then, were Jewish children taken into covenant with God?

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A. When they received the sign of the covenant, that is, when they were eight days old.

Q. If then Jewish children could be entered into covenant with God, by God's own command, what does it prove?

A. The lawfulness of Infant Baptism.

Q. Can you tell me of any children mentioned in the New Testament so named at the time of their circumcision?

A. Yes; John the Baptist, and a Greater than John the Baptist, even our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

(NOTE.-The Teacher may here go a little into detail, and show from the case of John the Baptist that the custom of naming children after their relations was common among the Jews.)

Q. Is baptism sometimes called "naming" a child?

A. Yes; but the name is a mere custom accompanying baptism.