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: A BLESSED CHILD. There are no words of scripture more precious to me than those which speak of little children as the objects of the blessed Saviour's love and care. Nor can I understand how any follower of the gentle-hearted Jesus can fail to feel a strong solicitude for the welfare and salvation of those who are such special subjects of divine affection. Ever since God was pleased to call me by' his grace, when young in years, and make me "as a little child" indeed, I have felt a deep interest in his little ones ; and with each confession of my love to Christ has come back to me the ansMering word, "Feed my lambs." And so I have been much among children, and have seen many of them brought to Christ, and witnessed many instances of sincere piety among them. But among all the little cues I have ever met, one blessed child shines forth pre-eminent as a subject of special grace, and an instrument of peculiar mercy to those around her. In the year 1841, when 1 was but a little girl among the green hills of my native Vermont, I attended a meeting where a few disciples were gathered in a small and humble room. Among them I noticed a kindly, intelligent looking lady, by whose side sat a little girl about three years old; a rosy, blue-eyed, curly-headed little one, whose sedate and thoughtful look attracted my attention. Desiring to be near her, girl-like, I edged along till I found myself seated by her side, and I got my arm around the shy little creature, and looked into her modest, loving face. The meeting soon commenced, and the proceedings were not the most hopeful. The occasion was a painful one. A brother in the church had been overtaken in a fault;—in an evil hour he had become intoxicated, and had fallen into sin and brought disgrace upon himself, his family, and ...