Only a Little One

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A YOUNG mother bent over her dying babe, and her tears fell thick and fast, for she knew that she must soon lose her precious charge. But God knew how to comfort her. Little Ernie looked through his crib rails at his mother and baby brother. “Mamma,” he cried, “there’ll be no sorrow there! Here we suffer grief and pain, but in heaven we’ll part no more.”
Perhaps Ernie did not understand all he said, but his mother did, and her grief was hushed, for her thoughts were directed away from her sorrow to God’s eternal home, and withal came to her remembrance the words of the Lord Jesus: “Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:1414But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. (Mark 10:14)).
On earth they sought the Saviour’s grace,
On earth they loved His name;
And now they see His blessed face,
And stand before the Lamb.