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From: "Robert D. Harter" <>
Subject: RE: Age of baptism?
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:19:38 -0500


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>Within my own experience, I don't recall any examples earlier than age =
12,
>and generally it has been much more common around age 16. My=20
>grandmother ...

Like you, I can only speak from my own experience; I was baptized at 9 =
(in 1945) during a Revival Meeting. A bit young? Probably, at least =
for a full understanding of what I was doing, but I have no doubt that I =
had come to understand my sinful nature and need for salvation. =20

Bob Harter

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