Reprinted from Implications of Public Confession, by Abraham Kuyper, 7th ed., Byron Center PRC Evangelism Committee, 2020. Used by permission. I prayed…and made my confession. —Daniel 9:4 The seed of faith which it frequently pleases God to sow within the heart of a child does not grow and flourish of its own accord. Imagine, for a moment, that a child within whose heart this seed had been planted had been kidnapped soon after its birth by a tribe of savages, that it had been taken far from its father and mother, and far from the blessed influences of Christ’s church....