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Our Duty to the Children: 58 total pages.

for good with every little child are influences direct from heaven and the Lord. Angels of heaven are near to every child, and they use the precious opportunities while his soul is open to them to implant impressions of innocence, of goodness and truth, on which the strength of after-years and eternal life in heaven depend. They are among the best and tenderest of the angels who are assigned to this holy duty. The Lord tells us this when He says of little children that their angels do always behold the face of the Father in heaven. "Immediately after birth," says Swedenborg, "angels from the heaven of innocence are with little children; afterwards angels from the heaven of the tranquility of peace, and afterwards 20 HEAVEN'S HOLD UPON THE CHILD angels from the societies of charity." Elsewhere the heavenly companions of children are described in other words. It is said that at first celestial angels, those characterized by the most tender love, are with little children, and later, as their state changes, spiritual angels are with them,

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