Work for Children

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 4, 1883

Work for Children.

In a recent address to the London Sabbath-school teachers, Mr. Spurgeon said, in extolling the dignity of work for children:—

“He who made the heaven and earth—infinite, eternal, almighty—he cares for the lambs. There is a long distance—imagination cannot bridge it—between the Infinite and the infant; and yet there is no distance, for love hath bridged it. He comes in contact with the lambs. He carries the lambs. What noble work is yours and mine, since Christ does the same. He is the great carer for the little ones, and we follow in his wake. If any shall despise the teacher of the young, he shall despise the Lord himself, for he is at our head. . . . Let none of us go to our classes as though we were insignificant, and were doing a second-rate and minor service in the house of God. We are doing what it is his delight to do. He whom the angels worship, cherubim and seraphim adore, head of all the hosts of Heaven, and of all the elect—he cares for the lambs. See that, in following him, we do it well.”