CONCRETE teaching is the best on morals, the most interesting to men and children alike, and the best suited especially to little minds. Human minds can comprehend without any refinements more of the blessedness of Christianity before they are in their teens than they can learn in the next twenty years. The lesson of prayer in trouble, of turning to God in anxiety, of speaking to him in secret by the way or at work, the habits of daily religious duty, of kind thinking, of generous sharing, of discretion and loyalty in Christian behavior, are all absorbed by seven-year-old girls and boys, and can be taken in to last. The perfume of goodness is very fresh and sweet when it is in children's minds; and it is a pity their elders do not look for it and cherish it oftener in them. There was something exquisite in the rapt smile with which a little boy used to repeat the verse, "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you," as if he knew its secret, and the first notion of his God was in those tender words. Children may not understand our words or our notions, but they can understand God's words quite as well as their elders can.