Article March 16, 1918 Issue

Childhood and Obedience

MARY E. HARDY

One who is observant readily traces upon the face of a child its environment of thought. If obedience to that Mind which the parents obey has been inculcated as a gentle, firm, and natural law of guidance to its first unfolding thought, we find buoyancy and brightness with spontaneity of action. On page 62 of Science and Health our revered Leader says, "The entire education of children should be such as to form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law, with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease."

The writer recalls a home in which the young mother had been healed in Christian Science, and she had noted when visiting there the ready obedience of each of the two little children to the mother's gentle commands, also the expression on the face of the elder as the mother voiced thankfulness for her own healing.

A short time after this the writer was called to help them in a time of great need, but it was two hours before the call was received. The two children had been playing in the upper hall, it being one of the old style Southern homes, and in leaning over the banister the little boy fell, striking on his head as he landed on the floor below. The mother fainted from extreme fear, and on recovering found a doctor and a nurse preparing to place the child in an ambulance. She, however, refused to allow this and asked a friend to call her practitioner.

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