Excerpt from The Life of Jesus, the Messiah: A Sacred Poem, (Illustrated) The ineffable tenderness of Christ's love for little children has ever been the theme of the mother's lullaby and His example has been followed to this day inasmuch as no man of heart' can witness their jocund faces, and list to the music of their song and laughter, without feeling such love for them, and recalling his own sunny days of childhood. Almost the yearning tenderness of the mother, is felt by every beholder of joyous groups of. Children. Infant schools are always filled with music. The halo shed around the Infant Je sus has furnished the subject of the greatest number of valuable paintings in the world. Every mother believes that the smiles of sleeping infants come from Angels. 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.