Here is a picture of little Milly, sitting on a big rug, rocking her doll’s cradle with one hand, while she holds the other one up as if to say, “Be quiet! you’ll wake the baby.”
Little children love to play that they are grown up, and will often do thing in exactly the same way as older people do, especially those they love or admire. Milly has probablly had mother tell her not to wake the baby in just the same wasy she is telling us now. She has put the kitten to sleep just as she saw her mother put baby brother to bed.
Often children and grown people, also, copy the words and manners of their coanions. How important that our words and our actions be only such that we should not care if they are given back to us again.
The blessed Lord Jesus was perfect in every way. Although it is useless for the natural heart to follow Him, to all who have come to Him about their sins and had them washed away in His blood, He says,
ML 12/21/1941