The Little Child That Is
He is made up of three priceless ingredients—Curiosity, Ambition, and Imagination. Crush his curiosity, and you will find him sinister, self-satisfied, knowing all he cares to know. Crush his ambition, and you will find him, hands in pockets, at the street comer. Crush his imagination, and you rob him of his power to lead this old world into new joys and new experiences. The father and mother to whom the Little Child That Is has come have already tasted of the bliss of heaven; but a fearful responsibility attends their rapture.
—F. W. Boreham.
The Two Roads
Where two ways meet, the children stand,
A fair broad road on either hand;
One leads to right, and one to wrong;
So runs the song.
Which will you choose, each lass and lad?
The right or left, the good or bad?
One leads to right, and one to wrong;
So runs the song.
—Anon.
Alternate Reading: Matthew 20:20-28.