A missionary sister baptized as a teenager wrote: “It seems to me that I was dedicated to serve my Creator from the very age of realization that he existed, but with the acquisition of some accurate knowledge of him and his purposes, I wanted to be baptized in outward testimony of that fact.
इस पर ध्यान दिया जा सकता है कि यद्यपि शमूएल और बपतिस्मा देनेवाला यूहन्‍ना जन्म से पहले ही परमेश्‍वर के लिए समर्पित थे, माता - पिता अपने बच्चों के लिए एक समर्पण नहीं कर सकते ।