Article July 22, 1922 Issue

"Thy will be done"

BESSIE GILBERT

The almost staggering statement, to human sense, which Mrs. Eddy makes on page 468 of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all," if comprehended even slightly, and the comprehension put into practice by parents in the training of their children, would result in great good in human affairs. Much has been written on the training of children; but it is a fact that only as a false sense of responsibility has been put aside, and love, patience, and intelligence have been reflected by the parents, has the true idea of parent been expressed; and blessed are those children who have been tended by these qualities of thought which emanate from the divine Mind. Thus should children unfold into health and harmony, as surely as the bud, with nothing to blight it, unfolds into bloom.

Jesus said much regarding serving and servants; and it will be found, if considered carefully, that every one finds himself at all times serving. So, parents are really servants; for it will be acknowledged that the home, where the training of the child is chiefiy carried on, is among the most important of earthly enterprises, and where the sacrifice of selfish desires should be willingly laid upon the altar, for the sake of another's good.

Some homes are apparently looked upon merely as places to provide clothing for the children, so that they may be better dressed than a neighbor's child; or to supply the child with proper food, with the thought solely of keeping his body healthy; and sometimes the cultivation of the art of popularity is added, expressing itself in foolish songs and slang phrases, a bauble that must burst into nothingness through divine Science, where existence is revealed so far above these ephemeral practices that they can easily be likened to "fool's gold" in comparison with the real joy which comes only when dependence on material pleasures fades away. At first, after the dropping of baubles, or falsities, one may seem to be sitting helpless at the foot of a mountain, longingly gazing up to the vast heights. Helpless we would be then, were it not for the truth which Jesus taught and practiced, and which is revealed to us in Christian Science.

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