essings are dependent on this
spiritual fact. When then, Church people take up this mode of speech
and use it in reference to Confirmation as is so often done, they
practically ignore the significance of Holy Baptism and the Church's
method and appointed order. {156}

The effect of this becomes apparent in the lives of many of the
Church's baptized children. Because, in whatever religious teaching
they receive, their Baptism is never referred to, and they are never
reminded that they are _now_ God's children by adoption and grace
_because baptized_, it comes to pass that, when these same children
are asked to be confirmed, they think and act as if they were
invited to "join the Church." And as they are more influenced by the
speech and methods of the various religious bodies which prevail in
their community than they are by the Church's teaching, they imagine
that something extraordinary is required; they feel as if they must
somehow "have got" religion; or they do not feel prepared to
"experience religion"; or else they don't know whether they will or
will not "join the Episcopal Church." In all this we see the result
of the application and use of "other systems" rather than that of
the Church. Thus many an earnest and loving young heart has been
lost to the Church, notwithstanding it was given to God in its
tenderest years to be trained up for Him. Confirmation is not
"joining the Church." If we are baptized, we have been "received
into Christ's Holy Church and made a living member of the same." And
because this is true, the Church has a further Blessing in store
for her children. This she would bestow by the ministrations of her
chief Pastors in the Laying on of Hands by the Bishop; and to this
our young people might go naturally and easily and at the same time
soberly and reverently, if they were properly instructed and lovingly
led. There is no reason why {157} any young baptized person might
not thus go to his or her Confirmation, claiming this Blessing as
their right and privilege as children of God and citizens of His
Kingdom. (See BAPTISM; NAME, THE CHRISTIAN; REGENERATION; also
CONFIRMATION.)

Jubilate Deo.--The Latin title of the One Hundredth Psalm,
translated "O be joyful in the Lord," and which is sung as an
alternate to the _Benedictus_ when the latter occurs in the Lesson
for the day.

Jude, Saint.--Also called Thaddaeus or Labbaeus, "the brother of
James," and whose name sometimes appears as _Judas