WHEN speaking of little children, Jesus said, "Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven;" and Mrs. Eddy, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 236), says that "Jesus loved little children because of their freedom from wrong and their receptiveness of right."
What greater ambition can there be than always to behold the face of our Father "which is in heaven" —to be at-one with divine Love, to have no other consciousness but good? The realization of this high ambition requires much self-abnegation and purification of thought.
It is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew that after Jesus had gone up into a high mountain—an exalted state of spiritual thinking—he was transfigured before three of his disciples whom he had taken with him. They, too, then saw the spiritual identity as a son of God, whose face shone as the sun with his exalted understanding of Life and Love, and whose purity was as a white raiment about him.
