Burscough Church & the Lost Children

I came across a stone in the grounds of Burscough Parish Church in West Lancashire. Unlike the other memorials in that place, it bears no name. It is to all children who die in infancy afforded no grave marker. Also on the stone is inscribed those words from Isaiah 49:

I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.

Little children, even those who die in the womb by natural causes or by the abortionist’s craft, are known to God and are His beloved. They leave behind few memories and memorial stones, but in heaven are they known well enough.