Until it died there was nothing that could overcome maternal love
in the heart of that poor dumb mother.
Is there not soul in such love as that?
JESUS' ATTITUDE TOWARD CHILDREN
A SUNDAY SERMON
"Suffer the little children to come unto me; and forbid them not;
for of such is the Kingdom of God."--Mark X., 14.
Jesus gave to the child its place in the world's society.
With all the power of divine authority He built around the
feeblest among us a wall that has protected them through the
ages.
Before His day the child existed only by sufferance. It had no
rights.
It was but a counter, an infinitesimal atom. It was considered
simply the property of the parent. Its father had power of life
and death over it. The homeless dog that roams the streets
to-day is more effectively shielded from cruelty than was the
friendless child before Jesus came to live and to die for the
weak and poor.
The law had said:
"The parent is ruler of the child, and may dispose of it as he
sees fit."
But Jesus said--and these are the most beautiful and affecting
words in all the moral law of the world:
"Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I
say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the
face of my Father which is in heaven.
Pages:
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44