THE CONVERSION OF CHILDREN.
By Wayland Hoyt
I BELIEVE in the conversion of children. I believe that upon them—and likeliest upon them—that birth from above may fall. I believe that quickest of all the little child will adjust itself to this demand of the Lord Jesus for the new birth. More than that, I believe that so easily may a little child be moulded, so facile is a little child to a rightly directing touch, that a child may even unconsciously meet this demand of the Lord Jesus, and almost from earliest consciousness, yielding its childhood to Christ as Lord and Master, grow up in Christ. Rightly asks another, "What authority have you from the Scriptures to tell your child, or by any sign to show him, that you do not expect him truly to love and obey God until he has spent whole years in hatred and wrong?" Nay, seek to turn the child Godward at the earliest moment, and so forestall and prevent the years of inundating wrong.—Wayland Hoyt.