Jesus said:
"For I say unto you, their angels behold the face of my Father which is in heaven."
Jesus spoke, and thousands of millions of men, through nineteen centuries, have believed, and obeyed the command.
Every man was warned that the child dying goes straightway into the presence of God, and there, looking upon His face, bears witness to the treatment meted out to him here.
Well might it be said of the man who mistreated such a child:
"It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."
Every man should study with awe and reverence the sad, lonely misunderstood life of Jesus, the friend of children. He had no home, and for companions only a few humble fishermen, to whom He spoke in simple parables, as to children.
"The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head."—Matthew viii., 20.
It was this childless, homeless Man that ever used His marvellous power to protect children.
It was He who gave to children their definite share in the kingdom of God.