Article July 20, 1946 Issue

Learning to Pray

[Of Special Interest to Children]

ALETHA SPERO

"Father-Mother God," Jimmie and his mother began their prayers each night. Jimmie loved to say with Mother the prayer that Mary Baker Eddy wrote for little children (Poems, p. 69). When he was a very small boy, every time they came to the end of the prayer, Jimmie would say, "More, more." Then he and his mother would begin "Father-Mother God" all over again!

Jimmie's mother wanted him to go to Sunday School. But the town in which Jimmie lived was very small, and there was no Christian Science Sunday School. His mother wondered what to do, so she took the Church Manual and read what Mrs. Eddy says about lessons in the Sunday School. She found that the Ten Commandments (Ex. 20:3-17), the Lord's Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13) with its spiritual interpretation by Mrs. Eddy (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 16,17), and the Beatitudes from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5: 3-12) were outlined for the children's first lessons. She was glad that the first lessons were simple, and that she and Jimmie could read and talk about them in their own house.

"We can read those lessons each night at prayer time," Mother told Jimmie.

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