The lesson for this morning is from the Book of Exodus, perhaps one of the best known incidents in that book, the crossing of the Red Sea. Even if you haven't been to Sunday School, or read the Bible, if you have been to Universal Studios in Hollywood, then you have seen this miracle reenacted every day, several times a day. Probably more people know about the crossing of the Red Sea from Universal Studios than the Bible.

It is particularly appropriate that this be the lesson on a baptism Sunday, because this is one of the scenes in the Old Testament that the Church used to explain the meaning of baptism. You can see immediately that what both events have in common, obviously, is water. If you study any religion, for that matter, from the so-called primitive religions of isolated peoples on…