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is given as follows:

Methodist Testimony.--"I was determined {68} not to be without it,
and therefore went and received Confirmation, even since I became a
Methodist preacher."--_Dr. Adam Clarke_.

Baptist Testimony.--"We believe that Laying on of Hands, with
prayer, upon baptized believers as such, is an ordinance of Christ,
and ought to be submitted unto by all persons to partake of the
Lord's Supper."--_Baptist Association, September 17, 1742_.

Congregational Testimony.--"The confession of the Name of Christ
is, after all, very lame, and will be so till the discipline which
Christ ordained be restored, and the Rite of Confirmation be
recovered in its full use and solemnity."--_Dr. Coleman, Boston_.

Presbyterian Testimony.--"The Rite of Confirmation thus administered
to baptized children, when arrived at competent years, shows clearly
that the Primitive Church in her purest days, exercised the authority
of a Mother over her baptized children."--_Committee of the General
Assembly_.

Consecrate.--To make sacred; to set apart for sacred use, as the
elements in the Holy Communion, Church buildings, etc. A Bishop is
said to be consecrated to his office by the act of Laying on of
Hands by other Bishops.

Consecration, Prayer of.--That portion of the Communion office
beginning with the words, "All glory be to Thee, Almighty God,"
etc., and by which the Bread and the Wine become the Body and the
Blood of Christ. This is the most solemn act of the whole service
and comprises (1) the words of Institution, (2) the Oblation and
(3) the Invocation, followed by the Intercessions. {69}

Consecration of Church Buildings.--The service provided in the
Prayer Book whereby a church building erected and paid for is
separated, by the administration of the Bishop from all unhallowed,
ordinary and common uses and dedicated to God's service, for reading
His Holy Word, for celebrating His Holy Sacraments, for offering to
His glorious Majesty the sacrifices of prayer and thanksgiving, for
blessing His people in His Name, and for all other holy offices. The
building thus set apart becomes God's House and not man's, and as
such calls for acts of reverence on man's part as he enters it to
meet God where He has thus caused His Name to dwell there.

Convention.--A name quite generally used in the United States for a
Council of the Church. (See GENERAL CONVENTION, DIOCESAN CONVENTION,
also COUNCIL.)

Convocation.--The term "Convoca