Excerpt from Little Children in the Church of Christ Worst Of all, Plato, in his ideal republic, could conceive of nothing better than such a disposi tion of unpromising offspring And Aristotle advocated it. Let it be the law, he said, that nothing imperfect or maimed Shall be brought up. Plato's ideal was the entire sun dering of the family tie, and the herding together Of children under Official nurses. This was Greece in her loftiest civilization. When we go to the Brahmanism of India, what horrors of infanticide in the name of religion meet us. Rachel weeps at Bethlehem, but the gods steel the hearts Of Hindu mothers. The sacred Ganges has buried more children than all the cemeteries of America. The Old Testa ment makes us familiar with Moloch, that hor rible idol into whose iron arms, made red-hot, little children were laid in sacrifice, while deaf ening drums drowned their pitiful cries. Girl babies in all heathen lands, how unfortunate! Unwelcome when they come, if not murdered at birth, how rough and thorny their way! Who does not praise God for the teachings of Christ concerning children 3 But let us beware4 shall WE have A religious meeting? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.