August 27

Undeveloped or mature—which?

“Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection” (Heb. 6:1).
“For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God” (Heb. 5:12).

There are two classes of babes—they who are just born, and they who have never grown. The former are ever sources of exquisite pleasure; the latter are the cause of much pain. A parent feels that a fountain of purest satisfaction is opened when God in tender love puts a babe into her arms. How fondly she watches that helpless one, and how gratefully she thanks God for that choice gift. But she does not wish that child ever to remain a babe, but to grow in physical stature, and mental culture, and spiritual completeness, and is only satisfied when these results are secured.

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