Article October 29, 1938 Issue

True Education

[Written Especially for Young People]

BLANCHE HERSEY HOGUE

Young persons who are studying in the Christian Science Sunday School find a radical difference between the spiritual truths presented to them there and the education in certain material subjects given to them in their secular schools.

An attempt to combine the spiritual and the material can result only in confusion; but, with the understanding that these are exact opposites and cannot be expected to combine or to blend, any mental fog can be cleared away. The teaching of Christian Science is the revealed spiritual truth about God, man, and the universe. The other sets forth varying and changing theories which deal with the claims of matter. And concerning these two opposites, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 319), "Throughout the infinite cycles of eternal existence, Spirit and matter neither concur in man nor in the universe."

The pupil who is observant sometimes finds little in the school curriculums or in the laboratories which ennobles character, supports righteousness, or vanquishes temptation; little which teaches him about the nature and power of God. He is given little in school textbooks on some required subjects to encourage unselfishness, loyalty, purity, kindness, to lift thought above material views into an abiding permanence of life, or to develop true affection. His lessons and experiments deal almost wholly with so-called material causes and effects. For moral culture and spiritual support he must look to a higher source.

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