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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

questioner. It is interesting to notice how this characteristic persists in the Primary group and the form it takes. Most questions con­cerning the origin of the world are asked and an­swered before the child is six. If the child could state his philosophy and creed, we might be shocked, but that philosophy and creed satisfy him and are a sufficient basis for the experience which comes to MIDDLE CHILDHOOD 67 him later. God probably seems to be physically like those human beings whom the child knows and loves best. The little girl who thought God must have yellow hair and blue eyes like her mother was only ascribing to the heavenly Father the most glorious attributes she knew. How else can the little child think of God than as greater and more wonderful than the very best he knows? When he thinks of his mother he sees a picture of her, and when he thinks of God he thinks of a person. But strange and inadequate as his ideas seem to us, they may yet contain the very heart of the truth. The Primary period, with its new associations, brings

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