The Newtown bee., 1895-01-11
Fairfield County News.
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 SERMON IN MEMORY OF THE BIGELow CHILDREN, PREACHED AT THE BAP- FIST CHURCH BY REV MIR JoNEs.-TExI MARK 10 :14-16.
 I've have in this chapter one of the
 most interesting occurrenees in the life
 of the Lord Jesus Christ, for it shows to
 us very vividly His true nature, His dis ciples felt they were sure they knew their Masters mind in this matter, and dis couragef those that brought the little
 ones to Him, notwithstanding the fact
 that he had lately cautioned them not to despise the little ones, and instead ot
 theirrebuke pleasing Christ, it displeased | Him, and he said "suffer the little chil. dren to come unto me, and forbid them
 not, for of such is the kingdom of God.'
 Christ took it very hard that His disci'
 pies kept them back; he was much dis. pleased, He as much as said what do you
 mean? Will you hinder me from doing
 good ,, from doing good to the. rising gen. eration, to the lambs of the lock2 ohfist
 was angry at His disciples if they dis countenanced any in coming to Him them
 selves, or in bringing their children tc Him He, ordered that they should be brought. Children are ever welcome vis' itors to Christ and no man has any right to prohibit them from coming to the Masters feet.
 I Our Pedo Baptist friends claim the Baptist church flinders the little ones from coming, in not baptizing infants We deny it, knowing that no church is more willing to, accept the little ones than the Baptist church is and will admit them as soon as they are capable to come, but they must come with faith believing and then we will baptize them and DO one has right to stop them. ''
 | Enough by way of introduction, and now to go back to our text. In the 14th verse we read, "Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them mot, for of such is the
 KINGDOM OF GOD.o
 l. The kingdom of Heaven is to be kept up by little chiIdren.and Christ took this occasion to declare that that kingdom ad- mitted little children. Children are to bear to the coming generation the name of the Christ, and the church should swing wide open it's doorsito welcomethe young, and teach them to know there is something for them to do. The church of Christ must die unless the young are gathered in; our fathers will not live for eyer; the pillars of the church are fast |decaying,, new "timbersA must De gotten ready; therefore let us obey the com hand of Jesus and "suffer the little ,chil- dren to come untoL him." Again Christ says in the 18th verse, ''Verily I say unto Kingdom of God as little child, he shall not enter -therein.3 e,,- 4at- ----s- Every man, woman and child must stand affected to Christ, as child does to
 it's parents, we must love him with our
 whole heart, we must be obedient and obey his every command, and unless we receive the kingdom of God as little child we cannot enter therein, we must have child's faith and simplicity in the matter of salvation, we must approach the Heavenly parent as q child does it's earthly parents, asking for something and having faith they will receive 1t, and when we go to God and ask, Him to for. give our sins, we must believe He has done it, and when we have knowledge-bs faith that He has plotted out our trans. l gressions, we must be like child anx. | ious to sit at His feet and be taught ot
 Him, and must be as inquisitiYe as a child being taught by it's parents or teachers in short we must rid our mind of all things that would hinder it from learning
 Heavenly things. The mind of child is as white paper, q mere blank. You may write upon it what you will, but how sus- Iceptible it is toevil, how easy it is to have the mind of child besmeared and blot. ted with sin, instead of Gods love being written upon it, therefore we should be careful to give the children no bad ex- amples m our lives for them to copy and as the mind of child is open for learn ing, so must our minds be to the pen of the blessed spirit. Children are under the
 GOVERNMENT OF THEIR PARENTS and tutors; so must we be to our Heavs enly Father. ItIis so easy for child to be taught to love what is right, but it is dangerous to put t off until we are old ;a therefoge my young friends, come to Christ in the days of your youth. Lastly, and this. is the main point. I wish to speak upon, And He took them up in His arms, put sfIis hands upon them and blessed them.' 7 The affection of Jesus, Christ, for little children is especially shown in this verse. He lpvelLchildren when He was suffer. ing man; these parents or whoe yer they were that brought these children to Christ besought him simply to touch them, but He did more than they asked HthIto do. He is always willing to do moro for. us than we expected Him to do. He took them up in his arms of pity and pf-gface and; pnt.his hands upon them, noting the bestowing Of Hts spirit upon them, Tor that is the hand of the Lord,
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