Charles Spurgeon on Children

Kim's husband is preaching on Father's Day and using this quote in his sermon. I wish we could be there to hear the whole thing. Don't forget to give me the link when it's on the website, Kim!!

"He (God) gives children, not as a penalty nor a burden, but as a favor. They are a token for good men if they know how to receive them, and educate them. They are 'doubtful blessings' only because we are doubtful persons. Where society is rightly ordered children are regarded not as an encumbrance, but as an inheritance, they are received not with regret, but as a reward. If we are over-crowded in England, and so seem embarrassed with too large an increase, we must remember that the Lord does not want us to remain a narrow island, but would have us fill those boundless regions which wait for the axe and plough. Yet even here, with all the straits of limited incomes, our best possessions are our own dear offspring, for whom we bless God everyday." --Charles Spurgeon