Article August 15, 1903 Issue

The Spirit of Obedience

W. B. T.

The problem of instilling into the minds of children not merely the habit, but the spirit of obedience, is one of exceeding interest to every conscientious parent, and to the Christian Scientist above every other. If conscientious, we are in a teachable attitude. "The conscientious are successful" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 340), and we need no better maxim to insure the undertaking.

It is the parents' sincere desire to see their children giving heed to admonition and performing their allotted duties out of love of right, and of them. That Perfunctory obedience, which is forthcoming simply because the children accede to their parents the right of command, is heaviness to every parent's heart. Fathers and mothers have before them a glorious task, and those upon whom the benison of Christian Science glows, should herald its accomplishment with unbounded faith and zeal.

It must at once be recognized, however, that with the parents, first and last, by far the more important part of all the problem lies.

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