p. 5 | Keeping the Child Heart

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 28, 1910

Keeping the Child Heart

J. E. CHAMBERLAIN believes that to be a really successful grown-up, one must have brought with him something of the artless candor, the unmarred freshness, the “trailing clouds of glory” of his childhood days. “Heaven,” he says, “has lain about us a little longer than it would otherwise have done. Friends have been easier to get, and even to keep, because of some honorable infantile quality. One thing that helps me to believe that our present methods of education are better than the old ones is that nowadays we let the child heart stay in the little one longer than our fathers did, and even encourage it to stay there all through the man’s and the woman’s life.”