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control. If the proper preparations have been made the previous day,
there will be abundance of time to review the lesson studied during
the week; and both parents and children can go to the school with the
assurance that they have the lessons well learned.
Christ’s Sympathy With Children
Jesus was interested in children. He did not step into our world a
fully matured man. Had He done this, children would not have had
His example to copy. Christ was a child; He had the experience of
a child; He felt the disappointments and trials that children feel; He
knew the temptations of children and youth. But Christ was in His
child life and youthful life an example to all children and youth. In
childhood His hands were engaged in useful acts. In youth He worked
at the carpenter’s trade with His father, and was subject to His parents,
thus giving in His life a lesson to all children and young. If Christ
had never been a child Himself, the youth might now think that He
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could not sympathize with them. But He lived their example, and all
children and youth may find in Jesus one to whom they can carry all
their griefs and all their disappointments, and in Him they will find a
Friend who will help them.
Jesus loves little children. When the mothers brought their children
to Jesus, the disciples attempted to send them away. But Jesus rebuked
them, and said, “Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come
unto Me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” He then gathered
them in His loving arms and blessed them. Those parents and teachers
who have no love or patience with children are to be pitied, for they
have not the mind of Christ. Those who are seeking to gather the
children into the Sabbath school are doing a good work, the very work
the Master would be pleased to have them do. The expanding minds
of even small children may comprehend very much in regard to the
teachings of Christ, and may be taught to love Him with all their ardent
affections. Teachers and parents should sow beside all waters, and if
faithful they may have a harvest of souls by and by. And when they
shall see the souls for whom they have labored, around the great white
throne, with crowns and white robes and harps of gold, they will feel
then that their efforts were not lost. The well done, good and faithful