Article November 2, 1907 Issue

I heard Mr. Harry Gaze lecture recently, and he criticised...

Clark Bell in

Medico-Legal Journal

I heard Mr. Harry Gaze lecture recently, and he criticised the prayer we teach our infant children to make every night on retiring—"Now I lay me down to, sleep," etc. He said it was a terrible mistake to have placed before the mind of an infant child every day as a part of a prayer the thought of death, as in "If I should die before I wake." Is it not a serious experiment, this constant placing the thought not only of death but "sudden death" before the mind of a child every day and day after day of life. The mind of a child is most impressionable. It should not be allowed to contemplate death, and especially the fear of death habitually. Its teachings should be the joy of life, of health, of strength, of the infinite. The prayer should be uplifting, aspiring, joyous. Character is thus formed.

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