THE other day, when I was in a cottage, I spoke to a dear little maiden named Alice, just four years of age.
“Do you know what Jesus has done for us?” I asked.
“He was put on the cross,” was her reply.
“Why was He put there?”
“To make a way for us to go to heaven,” said the child.
“And do you love Him, dear?” I asked.
“Yes,” was her reply.
“Why do you love Him?”
“Because He likes me,” said little Alice. What a happy little answer! For we, indeed, “love Him because He first loved us.” “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins”; and “Hereby perceive we the love, because He laid down His life for us.”
It is the simple ones who get the blessing. Dear little Alice’s answer, “Because He likes me,” expressed her knowledge of the love of God in simple, childish language; but it shows that she was more taught of the Spirit than many who are far older in years, and of her it may truly be said, “Out of the mouths of babes and suckling’s Thou has perfected praise.” M. W.