BAPTISM OF BELLS - The rite for the blessing of a bell in the "Pontificale Romanum" is of so elaborate a character that popular usage has improperly given to it the name of "baptism.” It consists of the recitation of psalms, washing of the bell with holy water, anointing with Oil of the Sick and with Chrism, putting a smoking thurible inside it, and reading the gospel of Luke x, 38 - 42. It is also given a name and has "god parents.”