Article June 23, 1917 Issue

Our Little Ones

EVA LATHAM

Our beloved Leader has often assured us that little children may be taught the practical application of the great verities of Christian Science, and the following incident is an illustration of the truth of her words.

One day a Christian Scientist was sitting on a bench in a park with a little child about two years of age, watching some workmen who were adjusting wires on a telephone pole. To the little one this was evidently a hazardous undertaking, for she watched the process with a troubled countenance. Finally she turned anxiously to the Scientist and said questioningly, "Man fall?" The Scientist smiled reassuringly and shook her head, and with a relieved expression the little one continued to watch the workmen. Presently with a happy smile she turned again to the Scientist and said, "Man God's child; man can't fall." Incidents like this prove that we cannot begin at too early an age to destroy the thoughts of fear which, if entertained by children, are sure to furnish a foundation for discord of some kind.

On page 9 of "Pulpit and Press" Mrs. Eddy says, "Ah, children, you are the bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the hope of our race!" The Sunday school gives us the opportunity to work for and with these Scientists for the future, and we cannot too highly value the privilege of guiding their first uncertain footsteps along the path which leads ever onward, upward, and away from material sense to the realities of the Life which is without beginning and without end. The writer can look back to the solution of many personal problems through an earnest, honest desire, during an experience of eighteen years in Christian Science Sunday school work, to point the right way to children.

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