infants of unsaved parents go to heaven, Jesus’ words to the disciples and David’s words to his servants may well imply that this is the case. For this reason a number of authors assert that heaven is occupied with many children, perhaps with even more children than adults. In the nineteenth century John Newton wrote that the number of infants in heaven “so greatly exceeds the aggregate of adult believers that, comparatively speaking, the kingdom may be said to consist of little children.”4 Charles