1. _Always pray to the true God, the Father of your Lord Jesus Christ, who through Him is also your Father. Come to Him in Christ's name. That is His will, and He alone can and will hear such prayers._ 2. _Pray in Christ's name, with full confidence that your prayer is acceptable to God and heard. Pray in the same manner as a dear child asks his dear father._ 3. _Ask Him for all you need for the welfare of your body and soul; in the first place, however, for the welfare of your soul, for your salvation. In asking for temporal blessings submit your will to God's will. Not my, but Thy will be done, my heavenly Father._ 4. _Do not forget to include in your prayer your neighbor, all men, even your enemies. Finish your prayer with a confident "Amen; yea, yea, it shall be so."_ MEMORIZE:-- _Thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve._ Matt. 4,10. _This is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us._ 1 John 5,14. _All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive._ Matt. 21,22. _Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me._ Ps. 50,15. LESSON 48. Holy Baptism. What Baptism Is. What is Baptism? _Baptism is not simple water only, but it is the water comprehended in God's command and connected with God's word._ Which is that word of God? _Christ, our Lord, says in the last chapter of Matthew: Go ye and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost._ 1. After having explained the Lord's Prayer, our Catechism tells us about _Holy Baptism._ You all, most probably, have seen children baptized, and some of you, perhaps, also adults. You yourselves were baptized in your infancy in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. You, therefore, should learn what Baptism is, and what it gives and profits. Let us hear what our Catechism has to say about this sacred act. In the first place, it explains _what Baptism is._ 2. _"Baptism is not simple water only."_ In baptism there is indeed _water._ The person to be baptized is sprinkled with water, with simple, common, natural water. We must use water in baptism and nothing else. _Water is the external means_ which God Himself has instituted for baptism. But Baptism is not only water, it is more; _"it is the water comprehended in God's command and connected with God's word."_ In baptism there is both God's command and God's word.