The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3 — John Shaqi
The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3Newton, Richard
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The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3
Newton, Richard
Jesus Christ -- Art; Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
The prophet Isaiah foretold that when Jesus came, he would teach his
doctrines to children just weaned. Chap. xxviii: 9. This shows us
that his teaching was to be marked by great plainness and simplicity.
And this was just the way in which he did teach when he uttered those
loving words:--"_Suffer the little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God._" Mark x: 14.
None of the other famous teachers known to the world ever took such
interest in children as Jesus did. And none of them ever taught with
such great simplicity. What multitudes of young people have been led
to love and serve Jesus by thinking of the sweet words he spoke about
children!
"The Child's Gospel." A little girl sat still in church listening to
the minister. She could not understand what he was saying till he
quoted these words of Jesus about the children. But she understood
them. She felt that they were words spoken for her. They made her
feel very happy. And when she went home she threw her arms around her
mother's neck, who had been kept at home by sickness, and said, "O,
mother, I have heard the _child's gospel_ to-day."
"It's For Me." Little Carrie was a heathen child, about ten years
old. After she had been going to the Mission School for some time,
her teacher noticed, one day, that she looked sad.
"Carrie, my dear," she said, "why do you look so sad to-day?"
"Because I am thinking."
"And what are you thinking about?"
"O, teacher, I don't know whether Jesus loves me, or not."
"Carrie, what did Jesus say about little children coming to him when
he was on earth?"
In a moment the sweet words she had learned in the school were on her
lips--"Suffer the little children to come unto me, &c."
"Well, Carrie, for whom did Jesus speak these words?" At once she
clapped her hands and exclaimed: "It's not for you, teacher, is it?
for you are not a child. No: it's for me! it's for me!"
And so this dear child was drawn to Jesus by the power of his love.
And thus, through all the hundreds of years that have passed away
since "Jesus was here among men," these same simple words have been
drawing the little ones to him.
And so, because of the great simplicity which marked his teaching,
Jesus must truly be called--the Great Teacher.
_But in the third place there was_--GREAT TENDERNESS--_in Jesus, and
this was another thing that helped to make him the Great Teacher_.
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