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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

of his Beginners' and Primary room telling of the Father's good gifts of sun and rain. "Look what they are teaching our little folks and calling it religion." "My friend," came the answer, "you are a father, you have raised children. Don't you know that when they were at the age for which this song has been prepared, God seemed to them very much like you, only greater? Their conception of God was a child's conception, was it not? Now, isn't it better to speak to God in terms which little children can understand than to call him Saviour, Lord, or King?" The case is exactly the same with prayer. A child's prayers, if they express his own feeling for God, are just as acceptable to God as an adult's ; but how different they are in language! Can you recall your own childhood prayer? Discuss the following, and find other examples. Are they suit-able for the children? "Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me, Bless thy little lamb to-night. Through the darkness be thou near me, Keep me safe till morning light." 58 LIFE IN THE MAKING "Father,

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