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The Child’s Face

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 17, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 11.

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The Child’s Face

By Ernest Warburton Shurtleff

THERE’S nothing more pure in heaven, And nothing on earth more mild, More full of the light that is all divine, Than the smile of a little child;
The sinless lips, half parted With breath as sweet as the air, And light that seems so glad to shine In the gold of the sunny hair.
O little one, smile and bless me! For somehow — I know not why — I feel in my soul, when children smile, That angels are passing by.
I feel that the gates of heaven Are nearer than I knew, That the light and the hope of that sweeter world, Like the dawn, are breaking through. — Ernest Warburton Shurtleff.