...not choose to forget that little things please little minds ; that he once was a child ; that then he ' spoke as a child, he understood as a child, he thought as a child ;' and that while employed in directing the youthful thoughts, and understandings, and feelings, it becomes...

...THEE." Here was the feeling of one who was as yet a mere child in grace; " When he was a child, he spake as a child, he understood as a .child, he thought as a child," before he had " become a man and had put away childish things." This is St. Paul's language, writing...

...CHHISTIAN IN MIDDLE AGE. IT was observed by the great apostle Paul, that when he was a child, he spake as a child, he understood as a child, he thought as a child ; but when he became a man, he put away childish things. 1 Cor. xiii. 11. This is not less true in...

...I dare be bold to conclude, that with St. Paul, (1 Cor. xiii. 11,) when he was a child, " he spake as a child," he " understood as a child," he " thought as a child;" whose infancy, as he with simplicity, so we pass it over with silence. 3. But no sooner was he admitted...

...deliberate, more optative, more selfruling, in a word, more pneumatic. When he was a child he spake as a child; he understood as a child; he thought as a child: that is to say, he was psychical. But when he becomes a man he puts away childish things, exchanging...

...possessed a human soul, the powers of which were gradually developed; so that when He was a Child He spake as a child, He understood as a child, He thought as a child. It is altogether impossible to form a right conception of what the infant Jesus was; yet it is highly...

...bread, and the bitter herbs, far better than all the ancients. As long as He was still a child, He spake as a child, He understood as a child, He thought as a child. And the great haste that the unleavened bread signified, was enough for His imagination and His mind and...

...temptation and to tranquilize the intellect. You must imitate the great Apostle Paul, who said of himself that when he was a child, he spoke as a child, he had the tastes of a child, he thought as a child. But when he became a man he put away the things of...

...boast that he had beaten all who were his equals in age and even some who were older. For when he was a child he understood as a child, he thought as a child; but after he became a man, he put away childish things entirely. And indeed the divine providence at...

...ultimately written for the amusement of the adults who had to read them aloud. Dickens, by contrast, wrote as a child, he understood as a child, he thought as a child: and when he became a man he never put away childish things. It is often suggested that Dickens was restrained...