Article July 30, 1932 Issue

The Safeguard of Our Children

GWEN M. CASTLE

The mother who is a student of Christian Science realizes in some measure the import of Mrs. Eddy's words in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 62), "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." She knows that as the child learns to be obedient to God, good, he will learn to abhor the evil which brings about suffering in one form or another. She knows that this spiritual education must start with the child's earliest days. She is also aware that in teaching the child "the moral and spiritual law" she must give him some understanding of the Principle from which law emanates.

Children are ready to be taught the truth. The simplicity of their faith and the natural purity of their thought make it easy for them to accept the fundamental facts about God. Even a baby can be taught to recognize the presence of divine Love. The young child readily understands that God is everywhere; that Love is ever with him. In the loving explanations he receives he will see a reflection of the One who is altogether wise. The comprehension of his difficulties, the pitiful patience with his failures, and the helping hand that lifts him over these rough places will do more to give him an understanding of the nature of God as Love than long discourses, which may cause mental confusion.

The elimination of fear from the mother's thought will bring to the consciousness of the child a sense of security. As her confidence in God becomes apparent, the child will turn naturally to the same source. The ever-presence of the one Mind will be grasped as an actual fact, something which may be borne out in experience.

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