I have got somewhat ahead of my story. These thoughts were prompted by a conversation with the Chaplain. We had not met since his first and only call. At his approach he greeted me very respectfully with a condescending air, and I saw from the frigidity of his manner that he had a purpose in coming. I was not left long in doubt what it was. He said, “Mr. Japhet, for some time past none of the Eurasians have come to church.” He waited for a few moments, as if he expected me to say something, but I remained silent. This rather disconcerted him. Then he continued, “Since the opening of your club these people keep entirely aloof from us.” I said nothing, and this annoyed him, as I saw by his fidgeting and the reddening of his face. Then he struck me hard by asking: “Do you think, Mr. Japhet, as an Eurasian, with an influence over these people, you are doing right in keeping them away from the church and from participating in the divine ordinances, without which there can be no salvation? The church was ordained of God, He established its ordinances. Is it not wrong, then, to interfere and prevent people from attending that which is for their eternal welfare?” He stopped for my reply, which was: “You are making a very severe accusation against me. I have never uttered a word to them against your church. They have been entirely free in the matter. As for God ordaining the church, my belief is that He has ordained it as He has everything else, no more no less. All that we know about it is what some men say, and what some can affirm others can deny; the statement of one set is as good as that of the other.” “But,” he interrupted, “did not our Lord Jesus Christ establish the ordinances and command us to use them?” “What ordinances?” I asked. “Why, baptism and holy communion.” “No,” I replied, “not at all. Baptism was an old rite used at the initiation of men into some society, or to signify their attachment to some leader or principle. Only to mention two instances: Were not people baptized unto Moses, and were they not baptized by John, the forerunner of Jesus? Jesus only continued the old rite, or custom among his followers with the same significance. The church, assuming to know more than Jesus did, has changed this rite into a regenerating and saving ordinance. Let me read what one of the Bishops of your Church says about it: