I WAS very interested to real the letter headlined "I can't get my baby christened" (March 1) and have great sympathy with the writer.

More than 30 years ago, I approached the minister at a church in south Manchester, where I was a regular worshipper, to explore the possibility of having our third child baptised there. I am a communicant member of the Church of England but at that time I attended a church of another denomination because I would take two other children with me each Sunday (I went to a service while they attended Sunday School).

The minister, who knew me well, would not baptise our child because we would not give a firm undertaking to bring him up in that particular faith. We accepted all this at the time but, in retrospect, I think I was too compliant.

All that was 30 years ago and what amazes me now is that this situation still persists in one form or another. I cannot imagine that God approves. What about "Suffer the little children to come unto me"?

BARBARA GIBSON,

Lower Fold, Hawkshaw.