Once when I was teaching a Sunday School class of energetic little boys, a tiny visitor, a girl several years their junior, was added to the class. At first she was rather solemn and silent, but soon she was beaming with joy and spontaneous affection.
There was such a special radiance to all her lovely, childlike qualities that although she said not a word, the older boys began to express, each in his own way, the very best that was in them. Their human energy took on more aspects of spiritual vitality as they shared with the newcomer what they knew of Christian Science and told how it had helped them. The small visitor's influence carried over into the closing exercises and left its mark upon the adults and older children in the entire Sunday School.
Driving home later, I remembered how much Jesus loved little children, and I could understand why. Once when children were brought to the Master for his blessing, the disciples rebuked the adults. But Jesus said: "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not. . . . Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein."Mark 10:14, 15; At another time he said: "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven."Matt. 18:10;
