taken away from them by unexpected death, they can comfort themselves with the truth that God, into whose hands they laid their child, certainly guarded and kept that child in faith unto salvation—even without Baptism. But when parents through sheer carelessness neglect the baptism of their child, they deprive themselves of this comfort. For Baptism, instituted by God for that very purpose, is necessary to salvation. May all Christians, old and young, make daily use of their baptism in their life