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Excerpt from A Memoir of Charles James Blomfield, D.D., Bishop of London, Vol. 2 of 2: With Selections From His Correspondence It is essentially necessary to the infant to be baptized; it is not essential to baptism that there should be spon sors (for there are none where infants are privately baptized, and die without being received into the Church). It is clear, therefore, that baptism ought not to be denied to a child whose parents cannot obtain sponsors. The rule that none but communicants are to be admitted as sponsors is enjoined by the Canon. Not by the Rubric. It is a very good rule, because no person who habitually neglects one sacrament can be properly disposed for bearing an important part in the other. But where the rule has been neglected, I think the people should be brought to the observance of it by degrees, after a course of instruction and exhortation, private as well as public, rather than by a sudden and pere mptory regulation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.