Article March 3, 1945 Issue

The Language of Spirit

FRANCIS E. CADY

To all its students, Christian Science presents a new universe—a "new heaven and a new earth." Young people entering the Christian Science Sunday School find themselves confronted with even a new language, familiar words clothed with a wonderful new meaning. Our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 117), "God is Spirit; therefore the language of Spirit must be, and is, spiritual." She adds, "God's essential language is spoken of in the last chapter of Mark's Gospel as the new tongue, the spiritual meaning of which is attained through 'signs following.'" To gain these "signs." the student must be shown how to understand this "new tongue," and to think in its terms, and the teacher in a Christian Science Sunday School should rejoice to have the opportunity of sharing in this illuminating work.

One of the most important steps in teaching a different language is to get the students to think in that language. They can be taught grammar and can memorize a vocabulary, but they will never become proficient in its use until they learn to think in the language itself.

How can we teach our Sunday school students to think in terms of this new language of Spirit? Ever since infancy they have been absorbing through the physical senses the so-called facts of material existence, its language and its laws. Now we present to them "a new heaven and a new earth" with a new language. If they are going to think in terms of this new view of existence— the spiritual—they must understand the facts of real being. Where are these to be found? Just as the facts of any material science are found in textbooks on the subject, so the facts of being as revealed in Christian Science are found by studying the Christian Science textbooks, the Bible and Science and Health.

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