SCHOOL OF INFANCY.
CHAPTER I.
CLAIMS OF CHILDHOOD.
1. That children are an inestimable treasure[1] the Spirit of God, by the lips of David, testifies, saying: “Lo, the children are the heritages of the Lord; the fruit of the womb His reward; as arrows in the hand, so are children. Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them; he shall not be confounded.” David declares those to be happy on whom God confers children.
2. The same is also evident from this, that God, purposing to testify His love towards us, calls us children, as if there were no more excellent name by which to commend us.
3. Moreover, He is very greatly incensed against those who deliver their children to Moloch. It is also worthy our most serious consideration that God, in respect of the children of even idolatrous parents, calls them children born to
- ↑ Madame Necker de Saussure, in her very sensible and helpful book on Progressive Education (edited by Mrs. Emma Willard and Mrs. Phelps, Boston, 1835), says: “When God gives to its mother’s arms the little being for whom she has suffered and hoped, what a crowd of varying emotions rush upon her soul—gratitude for continued existence and love springing up to greet the new-born spirit which is here after to share her weal and woe and to be the blessing or the curse of her future existence.”
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