Doing anything not needful is a dead work. Little children need no baptism, therefore to baptize them is a dead work, it availeth nothing. It makes a mockery of the sacred Ordinance, and in doing so, one denies the mercies of the Savior, and the power, of His Holy Spirit unto Salvation. Christ came into the world to save all men, not just a few; and to condemn any or many unto eternal damnation is trusting in dead works, and not in Him Who is alive as are all those who put their trust in Him. "He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless that there can be no more death." (Abinadi, Mosiah 16:8)
Mormon tells his son that this thing ought not to be, or in other words, there should be no contention among the Saints about baptizing little children. For baptism is unto repentance, and repentance is unto those who are under condemnation, because of a broken law. Little children cannot repent because they have broken no law, and are under no condemnation. But it is different with those who know the law and then break it. According to the requirements of the law they have need to repent, that the law may be fulfilled in them, and if their repentance is sincere, have their sins remitted by entering into the waters of baptism.
With the remission of sins come meekness and lowliness of heart. Meekness means complete dependence on God, and lowliness of heart, connotes, loving all men as brothers because we see in them sons of the same Father Who is God. Not pride, nor wealth, or station in life, distinguishes our place, but service to our fellow men.
In serving our fellow men, we serve God. Christ, in serving us condescended to things of a lower estate (not low), so as His followers, is it impossible that we serve them with that same spirit of love, even as He served the children of men?
Lowliness of heart does not even suggest a heart that is low, or one that is dead in trespass and sin, but one that is alive in Christ, and one that may be easily fashioned after that which is just and true. Not a heart of stone, like one of granite. With hearts attuned to the harmonies of Heaven, and spirits aflame with the love of Christ, we remember that to serve Him is the soul's purest happiness, and to worship Him, life's greatest freedom. May we suggest in the spirit of prayer, that which follows: "And when we render Thee our homage, may we also remember that only by obedience to Thy commands, by faithfulness to our duties, by the goodness of our deeds, can we make our worship acceptable to Thee." This, dear reader, is the first expression of meekness and lowliness of heart, and for us to recognize Him in every experience of life, is to put a crown of glory upon the head of meekness, and to exalt the heart that is lowly to heights that are too great for mortals, and to realms of the glorified which to us are real, we having seen them through eyes of faith.
It is then, that the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, fills us "with hope and perfect love" which Mormon says: "Suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." (7:45) Communion with God through prayer is then the natural desire of His children, and as they grow in years, so will they grow in grace, "and in the knowledge of the glory of Him that created them, or in the knowledge of that which is just and true," (See, Mosiah 4:12) "and this until the end shall come, when all the Saints shall dwell with God."