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GUARD THE CHILD

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 15, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 7.

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GUARD THE CHILD.

If I pierce the young leaf of the shoot of a plant with the finest needle, the prick forms a knot which grows with the leaf, becomes harder and harder, and prevents it from obtaining its perfectly complete form. Something similar takes place after wounds which touch the tender germ of the human soul and injure the heart-leaves of its being. Therefore you must keep holy the being of the child; protect it from every rough and rude impression, from every touch of the vulgar. A gesture, a look, a sound is often sufficient to inflict such wounds. The child’s soul is more tender than the finest or tenderest plant. —Selected.