A Blessing for the Children.
By Samuel Tomlinson
To the little children there is a blessing promised on condition; and the condition is, Obedience; but without complying with all of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus we cannot expect to meet together in the kingdom of God. Many of us no doubt have great privileges, that your parents in their childhood were deprived of, and you should appreciate those privileges and try to form characters worthy of meeting your parents in the promised land. Dear children, what an awful thought it would be, to not be prepared when Jesus comes, to go to the mansions175above with all the blood-washed throng. Many of you no doubt have fathers or mothers that are asleep in the dust of the earth, who have prayed for you and exhorted you to prepare to meet them in the resurrection morn. Now if you should be negligent of gaining that rest, awful would be your condition. Dear children, be obedient and good children, and happy will be the time when the trump of God shall sound, and you meet a dear father, mother, brothers, or sisters, on that holy happy ground, to sing praises to God for eternal deliverance.