The Little Child Prays
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Little Child Prays
Scripture Reference:
- Genesis 1 (further images / scripture text)
Description: As a mother teaches her child to pray, the father, in the process of storing a dish in the cupboard, looks around to watch. A man looks on through the open door from the garden where several others are gathered. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing and etching this emblem and for the brief poem that accompanies it (below). The attendant Scripture texts are Genesis 1:11-12; Psalm 24:1, 33:5-6, and 145:15-16.
Motto:
Learn to look upon the Creator,
From whom all that is good must come.
Poem:
The little Child must learn from childhood,
What Father and what Mother has,
Comes first from our Dear Lord,
Who creates bread, and gives all;
And say with her little hands together:
I thank You, Dear Little Lord, Amen.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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