It is a solemn thing that those spiritual babes keep their ministers occupied all the time in nursing them and feeding them, and they never help themselves. They do not know how to feed on Christ's Word, and the minister must feed them. They do not know what contact with God is, and the minister must pray for them. God be praised for the preaching of the gospel and for the fellowship of the convention. Very often mother cannot go out because there is baby, or the servant must be there to keep baby, or the nurse must be there.
Baby always occupies somebody.
You cannot leave him alone. So there are many spiritual infants to whom ministers are always going, and who are always wanting some help. It is a protracted infancy. They cannot help themselves, and can therefore not help others. There was the very same condition.