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The general rule is that a lay person isn’t supposed to baptize an infant except in danger of death.
The parents’ wish are otherwise supposed to be honored.
I was reading a biography of H.C. Frick earlier this month, and Frick had a son that died in childbirth back in 1892. They didn’t know what was the matter with the baby, but HC himself was a mennonite and didn’t agree with pedo-baptism. His sister, the child’s aunt, had a different view and discretely baptized the child at Clayton.
That was ok, but only because the child was dying- but if kid had recovered, the baptism would have been valid.
The parents’ wish are otherwise supposed to be honored.
I was reading a biography of H.C. Frick earlier this month, and Frick had a son that died in childbirth back in 1892. They didn’t know what was the matter with the baby, but HC himself was a mennonite and didn’t agree with pedo-baptism. His sister, the child’s aunt, had a different view and discretely baptized the child at Clayton.
That was ok, but only because the child was dying- but if kid had recovered, the baptism would have been valid.