What is a spirit child?

There is a class of teachers who are engaged in the training of the young—they raise their pupils to an understanding of the means by which to overcome all obstacles in the way of progression. 

By their own innate qualities, this class instils perseverance, integrity, virtue, morality and love for the good.

The spirit child shows all those propensities for evil in the spirit world, the same as if allowed to mature on earth, the only difference is there being no conditions adapted to the growth and cultivation of wrong, the child is divested of it more readily and receives teachings, which soon become thoroughly rooted, becoming a part of and in reality, the child's nature.

Purity, love and confidence grow with the growth of the little spirit until firm manhood is developed, clothed with the garments of righteousness.

Childhood in spirit life is looked upon by some as a blessing or a condition far preferable to remaining in the body. By others, it is considered a misfortune to lose that experience, which prepares one to judge of and appreciate the supremacy of motives in influencing conduct—motives, which call out of each soul the highest conceptions of right and duty in keeping the mastery of sin and vice and pursuing the path of goodness.

Reason teaches that it is better one should taste of the sour to test the real sweetness of sweet than to accept mere words to that effect—the same principle might be applied to the education of everyone—each sifting their own character and when the dross is separated being better prepared to judge of merit by experience of the reverse.

So it is with spirit children—never experiencing evil, they do not fully appreciate the influences attending wrong.