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- 746 Then the children cried, “Hosanna! Hosanna in the highest!” as over the palm-strewn road the King went into Jerusalem. Over the cross of His agony His enemies wrote, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews,” writing it in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, for the whole world to read.
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748 But before He came to the cross He had that day of triumph which the Church remembers on Palm Sunday, and then the children, in their glad young voices, shouted “Hosanna!”
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750 Nobody could ever make me believe that little children on whom our blessed Lord laid His hands grew up to be bad men and women. I am sure the blessing abided upon them through their lives, and as they have now been many centuries in heaven, I think that there they love Him very dearly, and as they see His face remember that He said to them first, “Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not.”
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752 But those words were spoken to the children of all ages. Though we do not now see Jesus in the flesh, He is not far away from us. He is our Christ, our Anointed King. Formerly, when kings were crowned, part of the ceremonial consisted in the pouring of oil (chrism) on the royal head. Jesus is called Christ because He is a King.
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754 A King who is as strong and loving in heaven as He was on earth, He still loves little children, and wants them for His own. Another very sweet word that He said was this, a word said to grown peo-
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758 ple, by-the-bye, “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven.”
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760 Not that children are always good. Christ does not love people for goodness, but because He is good, and they need Him. But children have no care about to-morrow, and nothing to worry them. Children depend on their parents for food and for clothing; children know little of the great evils that are in the world. In every city and town, in every school and home, wherever there is a baby in a little crib, wherever there is a child’s hospital, yes, wherever there is a child’s little grave, Jesus Christ is still saying, as of old,
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762 “Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
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