09-Appendix 2: Church Life Ruined by Infant Baptism

In this Appendix, I call on further testimony from one who
knew what he is talking about – David F.Wright:
Of [infant] baptism, it is commonly claimed that its
recipients are incorporated into the body of Christ, become
members of the church... Now unless this assertion... is
given such a spiritual or metaphysical meaning that its
truthfulness is wholly inaccessible to the social scientist or
historian, it must surely entail membership of the visible
church on earth. It would be strange, would it not, if, of
hundreds of baptised persons of whom this was predicated
over a period of time, none was subsequently found... at
worship or engaged in some essential church activity? I am
not forgetting that evangelical Christians have traditionally
made much of the doctrine of the invisible church, but we
should be cautious to summon this into play at this juncture.