"And look here!" exclaimed Dorothy, examining the passage closely. "In a verse or two below it says: 'For how knowest thou, Oh wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband?'" "There, now," said the father, "'save thy husband'. He evidently was not saved by his believing wife. It shows that, even though he was sanctified by the faith of his wife, yet he was not saved. Sanctification did not mean much for him, and maybe it did not mean much either for the children. The writer was trying, I think, to keep those marriages intact, and I guess he had a hard time of it sometimes. Even though that husband was sanctified, yet he needed saving. That looks mightily as if the sanctifying part had reference to the marriage relation of that husband and wife and not to any spiritual or religious condition of the husband, and therefore not to anything spiritual as regards the child." "Look here," said the Doctor with a smile, "I think Mr. Page will have to start a commentary." "I see you have a twinkle in your eye," retorted Mr. Page, "and consequently I will not extract any compliment from your remark." The conversation ended at this point. The Doctor stated that an engagement compelled him to hurry from what to him had been a very interesting discussion, and that he would be glad to renew it. He bowed himself out and Dorothy remarked: "Father, I cannot tell you how strange I feel. I appreciate Doctor Vincent's efforts to help me to know my duty, but this conversation tonight has made one thing clear to me, and that is that I can never join a church that teaches and practices sprinkling and infant baptism." "Miss Dorothy," said Mr. Sterling, "I think you could join my church, and I think you ought to do so, even though you do not believe these two doctrines." "Daughter, if you won't join the Presbyterian church, I don't know which way you will look." "But why, Miss Dorothy, can you not join my church?" "Because I feel it would be wrong for me to join your church believing as I do about these matters." "Wrong for you to join that church, daughter? I can't see where any wrong would be involved in your joining any decent church." "Don't you think, father, that it would be wrong for me to join a church that teaches that infants ought to be baptized and that sprinkling is baptism, when the Bible seems so clearly to me to teach that infants ought not to be baptized and that only immersion is baptism? What about my baptism? I would have to be sprinkled if I joined your church, would I not, Mr. Sterling?" "I think you ought to be sprinkled," he replied. "Do you think I ought to be sprinkled when I think the New Testament teaches so clearly that immersion is baptism?" "But, Miss Dorothy, will you set your judgment up against the judgment of the learned divines and scholars of the churches?"