Article August 9, 1924 Issue

Childlike Trust

MINNIE SUCKOW

IN the primary grades of a large city school system, one of the devices for instructing the children in spelling is to build words and sentences with letters of the alphabet set on squares. A little lad who had completed the prescribed assignment of a certain lesson, of his own accord added this sentence: "God likes me." When the teacher came to inspect the work, the boy with radiant face pointed to the sentence he had constructed. There can be little doubt that his joy in this truth was unbounded and that it carried him through the day without a cloud to mar the harmony of his thought. Gratitude for this evidence that God's little ones do live in the consciousness of His love filled the room with peace unspeakable.

The Bible assures us of God's love for His entire creation, and asks that we accept this truth and its attendant blessings with the same simple faith as was expressed by the child. When in humility and gratitude we can say with conviction, "God loves me," are we not beginning to find ourselves at-one with infinite Love? Think what a refuge this realization offers when the world tempts us with the belief that we are victims of unjust criticism, envy, hate, or jealously. Condemnation of every sort is annulled by the truth that God is satisfied with His universe, including man, and that, as His idea, man is subject to infinite, divine approval only.

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