Article March 30, 1899 Issue

The Child's Message

LOUISE DELISLE RADZINSKI

A short time since a little girl of eleven years repeated to her mother some lines that "had come to her while she tried to think of God's love;" her mother requested her to write them down, and send them to the Journal.

In simple, child-like phrase these lines tell of the omnipresence of God, the nearness of heaven, and the nothingness of error, evil. The Journal for August published them, and they have been read by thousands of God's children, big and small, and who can estimate the help they have brought to them? In one household, the elder child, a girl of eight years, learned the lines at the request of her Sunday-school teacher; as she repeated them and sang them, as she went about the house at her play, her small brother of four caught the message and began to question his mother. "Mamma, is God everywhere? Is He all around us? What for? I don't see Him!" The mother is happy to be plied with questions for they teach her, she finds, as much as she can teach the little ones, and between the two there are not many moments in the day that she is not reminded that:

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