Before His coming the wisdom of the world was devoted to telling the child ITS duty.
But Jesus explained to grown men THEIR duty toward children.
The family life was His ideal.
All men were His brothers, and, with Him, sons of God.
The loving kindness shown by God toward helpless men and women
THEY should show to helpless children.
Neither the rights nor the WISDOM of children must be despised:
"I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes; even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight."—Luke x., 21.
Wherever Jesus went, children followed Him, and the tiniest little soul, in its mother's arms or tottering along in wide-eyed curiosity, could arrest His loving attention.
How beautiful is the picture that the Bible story presents to the mind!
Jesus is at Capernaum, on the sunny shore of the Sea of Galilee.