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London Lectures of 1907

PART II
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See how clearly that is declared in the great and universal baptismal ceremony which marks the entrance of the child into the Christian Church.

In that sacrament he is "_made_ a child of God." He was not a child of God before, from the Church standpoint.

He was born under the wrath of God, in the kingdom of Satan.

In the ceremony of baptism he is made a child of God, an heir of the kingdom of heaven; and that is the keynote of the Churches everywhere: those outside are not children of God.

And you must remember that it is that Fatherhood of God which connotes the Brotherhood of man.


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