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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

life with qualities which our Lord has commended to us as exemplary. How may we direct them into habits of worship and of service? Worship is the expression of. one's feeling toward the God whom he knows. How can the little child be taught to have any feeling for God at all? The feeling will be prompted first of all either by love or fear. While fear has a wholesome place in the making of a life, Jesus Christ requires worship inspired by love. How can this be cultivated? How does the child come to love his natural mother and father? Every observer knows that it is the one who does most for a baby who receives the most love, whether that person be nurse, grand-mother, or mother. Under the writer's own observa­tion is a small boy who can get along very well without his father until time for a carriage ride, when the father is very much in demand. Gratitude probably is the cause both of love and of rever­ence. Do you see in this fact a reason why the Be­ginners' teacher in story and song emphasizes what the kind heavenly Father gives to

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