There is a small class of Baptists who are at times inclined to desire, and it may be, to seek a wider liberty at the Lord's Table than they find accorded in their own churches. The one prevailing argument with them is _sympathy._ To them it seems kindly and fraternal to invite all who say they love our common Lord and Saviour to unite in commemorating His death in the Supper. Even if they have not been baptized, they themselves believe they have, and they are good Christian people. "Why stand upon a technicality?" they say. To such the service is merely a sentimental service; a kind of love feast to show Christian fellowship, rather than an instituted commemoration of their dying Lord. They have neither Scripture, logic, expediency, the scholarship, nor the concurrent practice of Christendom, either past or present, to sustain their position. But _sympathy_ influences them; yet sympathy should not control conduct in matters of faith, or in acts of conscience. It is a grave perversion when affection for his disciples sways us more than fidelity to our Lord. We should not be so kind to _them_ as to be untrue to _Him._ Sincere Christians will honor those who are loyal to Christ, even though they differ in opinion. THREE FACTS EXPLAINED Baptists give the following reasons in justification of their course in the following cases: 1. They do not invite Pedobaptists to the Lord's Supper with them, because such persons are not baptized, as has been shown, they being simply sprinkled. They may be true converts, and have the spiritual qualifications, but they are destitute of the ceremonial qualification--baptism. The "buried in baptism" comes before the "breaking of bread." 2. They do not accept the invitation of Pedobaptist churches to eat at the Lord's Table with them, for the same reason; they are not baptized Christians. And while the appreciate their Christian fellowship, they could not accept their church fellowship, and sit at the Lord's Table with them, without accepting their sprinkling and indorsing their baptismal errors. 3. They do not invite immersed members of Pedobaptist churches to the Lord's Supper with them, because such persons, though they may be truly regenerate and properly baptized, are walking disorderly by remaining in and giving countenance to churches which hold and practice serious errors as to both the ordinances. These churches use sprinkling for baptism and administer the ordinance to infants, both of which are unscriptural. And yet such persons, by remaining in them, encourage and support these errors, instead of protesting against them by leaving them. They insist on immersion for themselves, and yet by a strange inconsistency give their fellowship and influence to perpetuate and sanction sprinkling for others. This is inconsistent and disorderly Christian walking; and, therefore, very properly, Baptists decline to invite them to the Lord's Supper. PEDOBAPTIST WITNESSES