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Updated: June 16, 2025
And how beautiful their piety is, 'Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise. Their fresh, unworn trebles struck on Christ's ear. Children ought to grow up in Christian households, 'innocent from much transgression. We ought to expect them to grow up Christian. III. The child and the Church. The child is a pattern to us men.
The same that from the mouths of babes and sucklings can extract the perfection of praise, and who can make the most abject of his creatures instrumental in bringing the most hidden truths to light. Miss Logan had never lost the thought of her late master's prediction that Heaven would bring to light the truth concerning the untimely death of his son.
When one is face to face with such people they should be slaughtered without hesitation. Not the slightest blame attaches to the slayer." Moreover, lest these exhortations should be construed merely as a philosophic treatise on Vedic teaching, the writer was careful to add that "these doctrines are not to be kept in books, but must be taught even to babes and sucklings."
To which it may be answered, in the first place, that we have good authority for saying that even babes and sucklings know something; and, in the second, that, if there is a mote or so to be removed from our premises, the courts and councils of the last few years have found beams enough in some other quarters to build a church that would hold all the good people in Boston and have sticks enough left to make a bonfire for all the heretics.
"But what is the meaning of this running after strange gods?" said Drake. "Never mind, sir! Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, you know " and then the bell rang for the race of the day, and they scurried back to the Stand. The numbers were going up and a line of fifty policemen abreast were clearing the course.
"My dear Jack," said Howard, "if you say anything of the kind, you will repent it. I am not going to have Maud bothered just now with any nonsense. Do you hear that? The frankness of your family is one of its greatest charms but you don't quite know how much the frankness of babes and sucklings can hurt and you are not to experiment on Maud." Jack looked at Howard with a smile.
It was strange how, with the marked distinctions between them, Donal and Gibbie would every now and then, like the daughters of the Vicar of Wakefield, seem to change places and parts. "God can make praise-pipes of babes and sucklings," answered Gibbie; "but it does not follow that they can give advice.
What would you do? Make ponds, you say, like the old monks' ponds, now all broken down. Dam all the glens across their mouths, and turn them into reservoirs." "'Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings' Well, that will have to be done. That is being done more and more, more or less well.
This is delicious; and what harm is there in her "Devilish"? it is strong language merely; even old Rowland Hill used to say "he grudged the Devil those rough and ready words." This is wise and beautiful, has upon it the very dew of youth and holiness. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings He perfects his praise.
Reflection upon the altered conditions of society in that age led him, however, to reconsider the matter; and he was resolved to tune another lyre, 'suited to the sense of modern men. 'For, said he, 'it is idle to set solid food before the lips of sucklings.
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