Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. IN A CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL, CONTINUED. On the following Sabbath, the subject for their lesson being continued, the teacher said, " Perhaps I have already said enough to satisfy you that the baptism of Christ was in obedience to the old law pertaining to the covenant of God with the faithful children of Abraham." " It is not clear to me," said Israel, " what connection exists between the Old and the New dispensations ; or, rather, what evidence is found in the New Testament of the transmission of the benefits of the Abrahamic covenant and the ancient laws given to God's people." " In Gal. 3 : 24, we read : 'Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.' And again: ' Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.' Hence, in this dispensation they baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. "Turn to the second chapter of Acts, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth verses : ' Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be'baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift ofthe Holy Ghost. For the promiseis unto you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.' " Here is the most impressive allusion to the promise made to Abraham — to be a God unto him and to his seed after him. To you and to your children, says Peter. He also exhorts every one of them to repent and be baptized. As his hearers were composed of representatives of many nations, this strictly verifies the promise to Abraham, ' Thou shalt be a father of many nations.' " You will here notice that this was the opening event of what is called the Christian dispensation; it ...