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though not in importance, the person, in this case you, confirms the promise made in his name by his or her sponsors in baptism; what that promise was you know from your Catechism. The second, and most important, part is that the person is next confirmed by God, who gives to im the gift of the Holy Ghost. If you will look at the Confirmation service you will find both these made plain. Thus the Bishop first asks the candidates "do you renew and confirm" your promise; & also tells the congregation that it is "convenient" (that is, suitable) that they should "openly before the church confirm the same." On the other hand they are spoken of as "all that are to be confirmed" and as those to whom "Confirmation is the administered"; and at the end of the baptismal and Confirmatioh services you will find the same way of speaking, "to be confirmed", in the rubrics at the end. Doubtless the most important use of an equivalent expression is in the prayer before the Bishop lays on his hands: "Strengthen them, we beseech thee, O Lord, with the Holy Ghost." Strengthen is a pure English word, which means the same as Confirm, which is of Latin origin. You see then there are two who Confirm; the person who Confirms his baptismal promise and God who confirms, strengthens, the person by the gift of the Holy Spirit. Of these the latter is by far and away the most important, for man is weak and often will fail in his most honest efforts; but God is All-mighty, "and to save to the uttermost them that so come to Him"; He cannot fail, neither can His promise. Were it otherwise, papa and