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257young children come to me anddo not try to stop them . For thekingdom of God belongs to suchkind of persons .'"Also : Prov. 29 :19, 21 .Children to Attend Studies,MeetingsMatt . 14 :21 [At one of Jesus'sermons] "Those eating comprisedabout five thousand men,besides women and young children."Dent. 31 :12, 13 "Assemble thepeople, the men and the womenand the little ones . . . . that theymay hear, and that they maylearn, and fear Jehovah yourGod, and observe to do all thewords of this law ; and that theirchildren, who have not known,may hear, and learn to fearJehovah your God ."Neh . 8 :2, 3, 7, 8 "Ezra the priestbrought the law before the assembly,both men and women,and all that could hear with understanding,. . . And he readtherein before the broad placethat was before the water gatefrom early morning until midday,in the presence of the menand the women, and of those thatcould understand ; and the earsof all the people were attentiveMassunto the book of the law . . . . Also. the Levites, caused the peopleto understand the law. . . . Andthey read in the book, in thelaw of God, distinctly ; and theygave the sense, so that they understoodthe reading ."Child Delinquency, Last Days'Sign, Results in Death2 Tim . 3 :1-5 "Know this, thatin the last days critical timeshard to deal with will be here .For men will be lovers of themselves,lovers of money, selfassuming,haughty, blasphemers,disobedient to parents, withoutgratitude, with no loving-kindness,having no natural affection,. . . from these turn away."Ezek. 9 :5, 6, 10 "He said . . . . Goye through the city . . . and smite :let not your eye spare, neitherhave ye pity ; slay utterly the oldman, the young man and thevirgin, and little children andwomen ; but come not near anyman upon whom is the mark ."Rom. 1:28-32 "They did notapprove of holding God in accurateknowledge, . . . disobedientto parents, without understanding,false to agreements . . . . merciless. . . . those practicing suchthings are deserving of death."MassDEFINITIONA doctrine of false religion . "The Mass is the unbloody renewalof the Sacrifice of Our Lord upon the Cross . In it the priest, as therepresentative of Christ, offers to God the bread and wine, which hechanges into the Body and Blood of Our Lord [transubstantiation] ."(National Catholic Almanac of 1948, p . 244) It is further claimed,"Our divine Saviour said the first Mass, at the Last Supper, the nightbefore He died ."-A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, 1949 edition,Question 365 .The Scriptures clearly reveal that Jesus offered his own sacrificeonce for all time and which never needs renewing . Jesus' words "body"and "blood" symbolically represent that those eating and drinkingare sharing in his congregational body and his death under the newcovenant .