Article July 6, 1940 Issue

Sunday School of The Mother Church

By Ralph H. Knapp, Superintendent

A great theologian, Phillips Brooks, once said, "The future of the race marches forward on the feet of little children." The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has written (Pulpit and Press, p. 9), "Ah, children, you are the bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the hope of our race!"

The advancement and purification of the human race must come through a more spiritual concept and true knowledge of God. The fulfillment of this hope for progress and Godward gravitation will be attained in large measure through educating our children in habits of obedience to moral and spiritual law, thus equipping them to meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws with their downward tendencies towards sin and disease.

When the cornerstone of the Original Mother Church was laid, our Leader wrote as follows (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 144, 145): "To-day I pray that divine Love, the life-giving Principle of Christianity, shall speedily wake the long night of materialism, and the universal dawn shall break upon the spire of this temple. The Church, more than any other institution, at present is the cement of society, and it should be the bulwark of civil and religious liberty."

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