Article November 2, 1940 Issue

Foundation of Progress

[Written Especially for Young People]

IDA NELSON LOCKWOOD

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The desire for progress is universally accepted as normal and commendable. Parents rightly endeavor to direct the education of children along lines that will prove advantageous in opening up avenues of progressive service and happiness. Such efforts need, however, to be guided by something higher than the ordinary human theories regarding life. On page 490 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Human theories are helpless to make man harmonious or immortal, since he is so already, according to Christian Science. Our only need is to know this and reduce to practice the real man's divine Principle, Love."

Some years ago a little girl, confronted with a difficult situation, demonstrated the practice of the divine Principle, Love, as altogether adequate. This child, upon moving to a new neighborhood, found herself in an atmosphere of unfriendliness to which she was entirely unaccustomed. As the school term opened she was bewildered and crushed in finding antagonism and injustice on the part of the teacher, added to the habitual unkindness of the children for whose companionship she so longed.

The child's parents readily recognized the error as ignorant intolerance towards Christian Science, and saw that this could certainly be dissolved by Love. Day after day, as the child came from school with tear-stained face, the mother read to her from the Bible of such strong characters as Joseph and David, not forgetting the perfect example of scientifically Christian forgiveness in the life of Christ Jesus.

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