NEED we tell you, dear children, who love your heavenly Father, that He loves you perfectly? In a family we know there are grown-up sons who are young men, and there are also some very little children, but the father loves his children alike, and cares for them all with all his heart. The wants of the tall eldest brother are very different from those of the little youngest child, but the kind parent is as much delighted to help the one as the other.
Now your wants, dear young friends, are not exactly the same as those of gray-headed Christians, but they are as important to you as the old persons’ wants are to them; and be sure of this, your Father who is in heaven attends to you as He does to them. Nay, we may almost say, the little children seem to have His care shown, if not more surely, at least more swiftly, than some of the older ones in God’s family, for little children can hardly bear to be kept waiting for the things they desire so well as their elders. Your heavenly Father counts the very number of the hairs of the heads of His children, since His children are precious to Him, and whether you are awake or asleep you are ever the object of your Father’s care.