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It is sweet to know that the precious work of the Lord Jesus is so great in its value that it secures for eternal blessedness all those who die before reaching the age of responsibility. He came to save that which was lost, and He said, “So it is not the will of your Father who is in the heavens that one of these little ones should perish”, Matthew 18: 11, 14. On the part of little children there has been no wilful refusal of God’s grace, or of light from Him, for they have not come to years when He would hold them responsible. And therefore there can be no doubt that He will carry out His own will in regard to them and not one of them will perish ... It is blessed to know that many millions who have, through dying in childhood, never had a place in responsibility before God have nevertheless a place before Him in connection with His eternal sovereignty, and thus they have been marked out for a place in His universe of bliss which they will occupy throughout eternity to His glory and praise.

‘Letters of C. A. Coates’, pp.391, 392

We are fairly comfortable, have plenty to eat and drink and prove God’s goodness every day, and there is a danger of living just in the sphere of providence. In a brief time we shall have to leave that sphere: what is going to abide is the sphere of divine purpose. If we live by the word of God, that is outside providence; the word of God connects us with the unseen, and faith does too.

C. A. Coates (‘Outline of Hebrews’, p.114)

I never can have moral weight to repress in another that which I have not repressed in myself.

J. B. Stoney (N.S. Vol.10, p.21)

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