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Eye on the world: Attracted to good, not lured by evil
In “Repelling terrorist attacks on youth” The Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board remarks on the fact that young people are “the main target for recruitment by terrorist groups.” The editorial notes that “IS has found it easy to recruit thousands of young people,” who are vulnerable to such lures, and the editorial calls for more support of youth.
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
Children are an heritage of the Lord.
—Psalms 127:3
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
—Proverbs 22:6
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
Children. The spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love.
—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 582
“O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.”
—Poems, p. 4
Related articles from the Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Cherishing the world’s children”: “... the qualities that make up childlike thought—innocence, purity, trust, and spontaneity—are not weak and vulnerable…. They carry with them the power and reality of their divine source. Hatred, evil, anger, crudity, sensualism, have no source in God or Truth and thus no power to overrule the nature of God expressed in man. So we can support children by refusing to equate their true nature with vulnerability and helplessness.” And “God’s children are not defenseless little people subject to the mistakes and cruelty of big people. They are complete spiritual ideas, not needing to mature materially in order to have the protection and strength of divine Mind.”
In “Holding our children in God’s love”: “What a wonderful concept of children Jesus had! He saw them as children of God, who could never stray from their Father’s omnipresence. We can have the same assurance today…. children are in truth God’s children, immortal, spiritual, expressing the divine nature.” And “Prayer helps us realize that the attraction of Spirit is all-powerful and that no counter attraction can enter thought or pull man away from his God.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.