Where the Light Dwelleth; Sermons (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MOTHERS AND CHILDREN They brought young children to him, that he should touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. And he took them in his arms, and blessed them.?Luke xviii. 15, 16; Mark x. 16. I Think it would be the mothers who brought these children to Jesus, that he might bless them, and like to believe it was no mean motive which moved the disciples to bid them keep their distance, because they thought he had other work to do of a far greater moment than this of laying his hands on these little ones who needed no new life to bloom in their ruddy cheeks and pulse through their sturdy limbs; while they could only stare at him in the wide-eyed wonder we have all seen. Here were the poor, the maimed, the halt, and the blind, waiting for the healing and help which had grown to be such a wonder in their small world. Surely, they had the first claim, while they were also on their way to the Holy City where they dreamed they should sit on thrones, with the world at the feet of their Messiah; and so to permit these mothers and children to hinder their onward march to the coming kingdom was to slip this poor and paltry business in the way of the royalty that was to crown them all with its splendour, so scant was the blessing the good men stood ready to give the mothers and the children that day. For, indeed, if we knew the term they used for ' little brats, ' I imagine we should know what they called them under their breath. But this was not the first time or the last they were to find they had no true conception of the Master's heart and purpose. Do these children hold the kingdom of God at bay while I stay to ...