QUES. 31.-Will you kindly say why the children of Korah did not perish, as did the families of Dathan and Abiram? (Num. 26:9-11; 16:27.)

ANS.-Petitions unto God may have been made for Korah's family by those that loved them, either at this time, or in their brighter days:for Korah was prominent among the Kohathite family who had the high honor to bear the Ark, the Table, the Candlestick, the golden Altar and their vessels upon their shoulders through all their journeys in the wilderness (Num. 4 :5-15); and the prayers of godly souls, the prayers of faith, are treasured up before God who shows His faithfulness by answering in His due time and way. But if their preservation was not due to prayer in their behalf, it illustrates the sovereign grace of God, not only in saving them from the doom they were under, but later in making them singers in His sanctuary (see the headings to Psalms 42 to 49). What a sweet illustration of God's grace to us, Christians, not only in saving us from the wrath to come, but in giving us a place in His temple that we may "show forth the praises of Him who hath called us out of darkness into His marvelous light," making us even now proclaimers of His gospel, in itself the sweetest song ever sounded in the ears of man-a song which the angels themselves delight to hear as it exalts Him who is now crowned with glory.

QUES. 32.-Is infant baptism scriptural? I would be very much obliged if you would explain it, as in connection with the Kingdom of God. (2) If, after being baptized in infancy, the child grows to manhood, and lives in sin, what good has baptism been to him? (3) Maybe I do not understand what baptism really is. If this is the case, I desire to be taught. None of us I presume, has reached the place where nothing more can be learned; so I trust you will patiently answer my questions, although to you they may seem very simple.

ANS.-You are no doubt aware that your question involves what has caused some of the bitterest controversies in Christendom, even to the dividing of Christians into parties. Nor is the controversy ended among those who have in large measure returned in subjection to the word of God. But, whatever be the differences, the passions and the pre-determined ideas on the subject, the word of God has a voice over all, and is as able to settle this question as any other. Let us inquire there with subdued spirits, and the convictions formed in us in that way will lead to enlargement of heart and spiritual intelligence, with attendant blessing.

(1) Scripture says nothing about infant baptism, but it says much about household baptism. The distinction is very important, for if I baptize an infant as an infant I still have in mind his individuality. If I baptize him as belonging to a Christian household I have the household in mind, which is the Scripture idea. The household is a divine institution, and God loves it and delights to impart blessing to it as such. As a proof of this, see 1 Cor. 7:12-14. So pleasing is the Christian household to God that if but one of the pair (the husband or the wife) is a Christian it constitutes the household as Christian, and the children "are holy":that is, they form a part of it along with their parents. The whole household is sanctified-that is, is a community separated to God from the world. Accordingly in Acts 16 we read of two households being baptized. In 1 Cor. 1 another is mentioned. Two or three witnesses suffice to establish convincing proof according to Scripture, and here are three plain cases, t has been objected by some who are against household baptism hat in two cases there were believers in the household. This, even though every member of the household were a believer, does lot change the principle a whit. They were baptized, not simply is individuals, but as forming part of a household which God had let apart for Himself