Funeral Lesson #3
                     For a Young Child

I. Obituary Reading

II. Personal Anecdotes

III. Message
   A. We come to grieve for the death of one so young
   B. We can gain some comfort, at this time, from God's Word
   C. Mark 10:13-16
      1. Jesus let the children come to Him
      2. He declared that the Kingdom belongs to them
   D. We have every confidence, then, that the child is with Jesus
   E. Poem- "I Wonder" (Elizabeth Browning?)
      1. I wonder, O I wonder, where the little faces go
         That come and smile and stay awhile, and pass like flakes of snow--
         The dear, wee baby faces that the world has never known,
         But mothers hide, so tender-eyed, deep in their hearts alone.
      2. I love to think that somewhere, in the country we call Heaven,
          The land most fair of anywhere will unto them be given.
          A land of little faces-- very little, very fair--
          And every one shall know her own and cleave unto it there.
      3. O grant it, loving Father, to the broken hearts that plead!
          Thy way is best-- yet O, to rest in perfect faith indeed!
          To know that we shall find them, even them, the wee white dead
          At thy right hand, in thy bright land, by living waters led.

IV. Conclusion
   A. We spend time today remembering the short life lived
   B. We can have every confidence that the child is currently with God
   C. Let us strive so that we may one day join him (cf. Hebrews 4:10-11)!
   
Graveside Service

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return 
(Ecclesiastes 3:20).

The dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7).

Prayer