It is fifteen feet wide, sixty feet long, and during the hour of the solemn ordinance, the brook is running constantly.  The sides of the pool, the pulpit and platform, summer or winter, are banked with flowers, palms, moss and vines.  On the surface of the water float blossoms, while at the back, banked with mosses and flowers, splashes and sparkles a little waterfall.  Over all falls the soft radiance of an illuminated cross.  It is a beautiful scene, one that never fades from the memory of the man or woman who is “buried with Christ by baptism into death,” to be raised again in the likeness of His resurrection.  The candidates enter at the right and pass out at the left, the pastor pressing into the hands of each, some of the beautiful blossoms that float on the water.  During the whole service the organ plays softly, the choir occasionally singing some favorite hymn.

When the number of candidates is large, being on occasion as high as one hundred and seventy-seven adults, the associate pastor assists.  It is no unusual thing to see members of a family coming together to make this public profession of their faith.  Husband and wife, in many cases; husband, wife and children in many others; a grandmother and two grandchildren on one occasion, and on yet another, a venerable gray-haired nurse came with four of the family in which she had served for many years, and the five entered the baptistry together.

“Among the converts,” says one who witnessed a baptismal service, “there were aged persons with their silvered hair.  There were stalwart men, fitted to bear burdens in the church for many years to come.  There were young men and maidens to grow into strong men and women of the future church.  There were little children sweet in their simplicity and pure love of the Savior, little children who were carried in the arms of those who assisted, and whom Dr. Conwell tenderly held in his arms as he buried them with Christ.”

Another solemn service of the church is the dedication of infants.  Any parents who wish, may bring their child and reverently dedicate it to God, solemnly promising to do all within their power to train it and teach it to lead a Christian life and to make a public profession of faith when it has arrived at the years of discretion.  The service reads: 

Question.—­Do you now come to the Lord’s house to present your child (children) to the Lord?  Answer.—­We do.

QUES.—­Will you promise before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will, so far as in you lieth, teach this child the Holy Scriptures, and bring him (her) up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord?  Will you train his (her) mind to respect the services of the Lord’s House, and to live in compliance with the teachings and example of our Lord?  When he reaches the years of understanding, will you show him the necessity of repentance, explain to him the way of salvation, and urge upon him the necessity of conversion, Baptism, and union with the visible Church of Christ?  ANS.—­We will.