Excerpt from A Life of Christ for Children: As Told by a Grandmother

This volume presents to its young readers in a manner suited to their age the life on earth of our Blessed Lord. We follow Him in this story related for us by His own immediate followers in the pages of the Holy Gospel.

We see him as an infant, a child, a grown boy, and then, in the fullness of His power, as a man.

His whole life is worthy Of our study because nothing begins to compare in value, either in time or eternity, with the life of Jesus Christ.

Nothing is more beneficial to the young boy or girl Of to-day than a knowledge Of that Life. He will find in it the instruction that he most needs; he will find therein how to live as a boy and afterwards as a man; and, in imitating Christ, he will bring out the very best that is in himself, both from an earthly and a heavenly stand point.

We must remember that Jesus Christ came down from heaven and became a man and lived His human life to show us how we ought to live. There is no one to whom He does not speak directly through that life, and it is just as valuable, just as practical, now as it was in the days when Christ walked upon earth. As we grow up and meet the little or big things of everyday life, we are called upon to show our worth and our character, or to show that we haven't anything of either - which God forbid.

Every day we are called upon to do this little work of study or of errands at home; to keep our temper in thisgame or under this trial; to be pure, not to seek to satisfy our curiosity, or our senses, by indulging in this pleas ure or in that; to keep to our religious duties; to love our parents, our brothers, our sisters, with a real, unselfish love. We are called upon to stand for honesty; for fair play; for truthfulness; for purity and cleanliness Of life all through our days.

All these calls must come to every one Of us; they do come every day. And it is equally true that we need the example, the lesson Of One Who actually faced all the evils Of the world; Who had pain and suffering and yet Who conquered all and won out in all. Jesus Christ was a man among men, and in His manhood He gave an example Of what every man should be; of what every one of us should be. In every case that comes before us where we must ask ourselves whether we will do this or that, whether we will refrain from this forbidden pleasure or yield to it, in every case we can readily see - since we know Him - what Jesus Christ would have done and what He would wish us to do. There is no uncertainty about it; there is no doubt about it. Before us, as a great light, the greatest light the world has ever known; greater and more piercing than the sun, illuminating every soul, is the life of Jesus Christ. He has given His example, He has shown what ought to be done in every case to every boy and girl, every man and woman.

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