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Education
Every Christian Scientist has the question of the children's education tremendously at heart. No sooner has he gained some understanding of spiritual being and of spiritual law, whereby sickness and sin are healed and health and morals established on a reliable and scientific basis, than he desires the children to learn the truth which makes humanity free. Parents are more than all others responsible for the well-being of their children; and it is their bounded duty to bring them up in the knowledge of Truth, which will establish them in the way of righteousness and secure to them the greatest measure of happiness.
Mrs. Eddy, as was to be expected from her love of humanity, let her heart go out to the children. She had great compassion for their tender years. Well she knew the temptations and pitfalls to which youth is subject; and, so, to protect them she established a complete course of education in Christian Science Sunday Schools, which could be continued until the pupil had reached the age of twenty years. This course, based upon the Scriptures, from first to last was intended to enable the pupils to obtain an understanding of divine Principle and its application to human problems, in accordance with the divine revelation contained in the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings, and more especially in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." The lessons of the course, specifically detailed in Article XX of the Church Manual, comprise the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, with its spiritual interpretation from Science and Health (p. 16), the Sermon on the Mount, and the Bible Lessons contained in The Christian Science Quarterly. They are splendidly suited to their purpose; and the greatest wisdom has to be shown by the teachers in imparting such instruction as will accord with the children's "understanding or ability," as Mrs. Eddy says in the Church Manual (Article XX, Sect. 2), "to grasp the simpler meanings of the divine Principle that they are taught."
April 22, 1922 issue
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The Test
GEORGE H. MOORE
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Unfoldment
JULIA WARNER MICHAEL JOHNSTON
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Peace and the Blessedness of Peacemaking
JOSEPH G. MANN
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True Service
KATHERINE E. VARGA
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The Perfect Gift
JESSIE G. CALDWELL
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Ascension
BEATRICE CLAYTON
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In reference to the interesting article in a recent issue of...
Sigge Cronstedt
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The terms used by Mrs. Eddy to define God are synonymous
W. K. Primrose
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The writer of this report misrepresented Christian Science...
Richard E. Prince
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Association Meetings
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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The Disloyalty of Doubt
Albert F. Gilmore
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"The simplicity that is in Christ"
Ella W. Hoag
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Education
Duncan Sinclair
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Christian Science came to me thirty years ago
Jessie A. Moran
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Some years ago, after relying from my earliest recollection...
Florence Gilman Hart
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I wish to express my deep gratitude for Christian Science...
A. Jacqueline Shaw
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Over fourteen years ago I attended for the first time a...
Inez Dayton Blond
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As a little child I was compelled by doctors and specialists...
Mary Harriet Kettering
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About fourteen years ago I went to live with a man and...
Augustin Beaudry
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I owe so much to Christian Science that it is difficult to...
Mary E. Holloway
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It is nine years since I caught my first glimpse of the...
Stella Mae Biddle
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It is attributable entirely to Christian Science and its...
John Young Robertson with contributions from Augusta Weil Robertson
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I gratefully testify to the healing power of Christian Science
Minnie Schellenberger
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Edward S. Martin, E. A. DeVore, Harold Anson
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Notices
with contributions from Clerk of The Mother Church