She learns that God is good and God is great;
that He takes care of people, at night especially; that one may ask Him
for whatever she wants and if it is best she will get it; that if one
would please God she must be very good and there are many things she
must not do; that those who please Him shall be rewarded and those who
fail shall be punished.
Her instructors do not mean always that this shall be the sum total of
their teachings but stripped of all the songs, the pictures and cards,
the birthday greetings, the flowers and stories, these things in the
majority of cases sum up the little girl's conclusions. There enters
into her religion in many cases that name which seems so often to sound
sweeter when murmured by baby lips than at any other time. The little
girl has learned to love the Baby asleep in the hay, the Child before
whom the Magi knelt, the obedient and lovable boy who played in
Nazareth. Then the new outlook comes and the little girl sees Jesus the
Redeemer and God the Father. She listens with eager fascinated interest
to the stories of what He did and said, tries to obey the commands He
gave, suffers for her sins of commission, prays and hopes to be
forgiven. The One who searches the hearts of men must find as honest,
devoted faith among these little girls as anywhere in His army of
believing followers.
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