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BELOVED CHILDREN

From Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, page 110:

Beloved children, the world has need of you, — and more as children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives. You need also to watch, and pray that you preserve these virtues unstained, and lose them not through contact with the world. What grander ambition is there than to maintain in yourselves what Jesus loved, and to know that your example, more than words, makes morals for mankind!

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From the King James Bible, Mark’s gospel, chapter 20 verses 13-16:

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.

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From the Christian Science Hymnal number 318:

Suffer the children to come to me,
This was the Master’s tender plea;
Gentle and loving, they are mine,
Ah, will not ye who see this sign
       Come unto me?

He who receiveth the Word as they,
Teachable, ready to choose my way,
He shall have peace of sin forgiven,
He shall in this wise enter heaven;
       Come unto me.

See ye the lilies, how fair they grow,
Clothed in a glory kings ne’er know
They, like the sparrows, praise the Lord,
Publish my call with clear accord,
       Come unto me.