Baptism vs Christening

[GR2]

I have just read through the chapter on baptism in a 1709 Church of Scotland handbook which I have here. The word christen never appears, only baptise.

[venelow]

This happened to me. I was baptized by a midwife because she thought I was in danger of dying. She chose my name and my parents had to stick with it because I was baptized with that name. And yet here I am over 70 years later. Stuck with a name that was spelt in a different way to the usual spelling which still causes me problems.

Venelow
Canada

[ThrelfallYorky]

robbo43, I agree with your view .... as I mentioned earlier.
Just remembered I've neither been baptised nor christened myself, because my Mum's sister made such a fuss about wanting to be there, .... and kept finding reasons why she couldn't make it.... and eventually my parents gave up trying to fix days!
Having said that, I attended a Baptist chapel and Sunday School as a youngster, and even acted as a Sunday School Teacher for years, there ... and everyone, including the minister,  knew I'd never been either christened nor baptised!
-Do you think that might help me out of limbo, if I ever find myself there?

[Viktoria]

Well, you are going nowhere ,there ain’t no such place as Limbo,unless you are addicted to dancing almost on the floor!
Handy if you ever get locked in a public toilet!
Viktoria.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Now: that conjures up quite an image!

[Rena]

Well, you are going nowhere ,there ain’t no such place as Limbo,unless you are addicted to dancing almost on the floor!
Handy if you ever get locked in a public toilet!
Viktoria.

 lol, I agree with Yorky; 

[Maiden Stone]

Well, you are going nowhere ,there ain’t no such place as Limbo,unless you are addicted to dancing almost on the floor!
Handy if you ever get locked in a public toilet!
Viktoria.

That's resurrected a memory of being stuck in the school outdoor lav. when I was a small child. An equally small classmate managed to get in and unlock the door. I can't remember whether she crawled under the door or partition or climbed over aided by a foot-up from a bigger girl. There were very few obese 5 year-olds in my day.

[Viktoria]

And that reminds of jokers who used to put notices in toilets that had doors that did not reach the floor .
“ BEWARE LIMBO DANCERS”.
Viktoria.

[Creasegirl]

I think that christening was a naming ceremony and that baptism was the water from the font so maybe at that time it was sometimes separated but now the 2 things are interchangeable for infant baptism or christening.