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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 20, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 25.

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When Returns Are Greatest

CHILDREN are born in God’s image; the likeness fades only as sin, voluntarily chosen, gets in its work. But the likeness need not fade, if children can be held to the standard which God intends. This is why work for children is the greatest work in the world; why, as Phillips Brooks said, “He who helps a child helps humanity with a distinctness, with an immediateness, which no other help given to human creatures “in any other stage of their human life can possibly give again.” Are we thinking of this, day by day, as the opportunities for serving his little ones crowd upon us? Are we careful to show, and to be, only our best selves before them? The gain of helping such a one into character is hinted at in Christ’s description of the millstone penalty which is preferable to causing one such to offend.—Selected.