Spiritual manhood has put away childish thinking. What, for
instance, does a child think about God? Professor Street
publishes some first-hand illustrations of childish conceptions
of God. He says that children “completely anthropomorphize God,
making Him subservient to time, space, and passions, just the
same as they themselves are.” I recall an example or two: When a
girl was told that the stars were God’s eyes, she at once asked
where His legs were. Another saw, for the first time, a cupola
on a barn. Gazing at it she asked, “Does God live in that little
house?” A boy asked some one if God made the river running back
of his house. On receiving an affirmative answer, he promptly
replied, “He must have had a big shovel.” When another boy
refused to say his prayers, he was asked for the reason. He
answered, “Why, they are old. God has heard them so many times
that they are old to Him, too. Why, He knows them as well as I
do myself.”--F. F. SHANNON.
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