Article October 6, 1945 Issue

Religion and Childlikeness

LEWIS CHARLES HUBNER

Who has not felt refreshed and uplifted by the sparkling laughter, the genuine frankness and sweetness, of a little child? When untrammeled by false education, most children naturally accept and share the innocent joys and delights of each day.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 53), "Christian Science is simple, and readily understood by the children; only the thought educated away from it finds it abstract or difficult to perceive." And on pages 323 and 324 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she says, "Willingness to become as a little child and to leave the old for the new renders thought receptive of the advanced idea."

The student of Christian Science soon learns that mortal existence, the testimony of the physical senses, is a self-deceiving product of false education. He early discerns that in order to become truly educated, to enter into a full and demonstrable understanding of the facts of being, he must be willing to become as a little child in his attitude toward God, the only Mind and source of intelligence. Our Master, Christ Jesus, has told us plainly (Matt. 18:3), "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."

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