...meaning, and may be illustrated by that familiar comparison of our Lord — " unless ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the. kingdom of heaven :" an* again — o whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little...

...appointed. O may we learn a child-like simplicity in contemplating our abased Creator, remembering what he said, Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of God. INTRODUCTION. IT is a, dispute, among the antiquarians, respecting the precise...

...instructive and important, is opened to the mind. Its interior language is, "Except ye ba converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven." The question then occurs to the thoughtful mind, — "Who are the lambs, and...

...many striking stories in it. How remarkable is that part, where Christ, having a child set before him, said, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven ! and also another part, where they wanted to touch the hem of his garment, that...

...St. Matthew, in reproof of the ambition, the worldly mindedness, and the bickerings of his disciples, said — "except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of hea> yen ;" whatever ingenuity you may display in preventing the application...

...be subdued, and what is internally polluted, must be internally purified. " Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of Heaven." Prayer, then — earnest and continual prayer for the renovating grace of Christ...

...judgment, where you have not sure evidence to turn the scales. When Christ saith, " Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven :" (Matt, xviii. 3 :) as he hath respect to the humility of children in general...

...judgment, where you have not sure evidence to turn the scales. When Christ saith, " Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven :" (Matt, xviii. 3 :) as he hath • respect to the humility of children in general...

...he took a little child, and set him in the midst of his audience saying, " Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven." He sometimes accompanied his instruction, with most affecting action. To teach...

...their distrust of their own wisdom or power, their absence of hypocrisy, and their docility and purity, when He said, " Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall in no-wise enter the kingdom of God." Wf //t;i// /•// ///f,ir i//f</n,i //wnw f/f// d//.i /////n'////rt/...