Editorial September 13, 1947 Issue

AN OPEN LETTER TO GIRLS AND BOYS

John Randall Dunn

Dear Young Friends:

This is the season when many of you are coming back to school after the summer holidays. I assume that most of you already know something about Christian Science and are attendants at the Sunday School and so will understand my references to this teaching. I am confident that you are familiar with the First Commandment (Ex. 20:3), "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Without doubt you also have read that passage from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy which reads (p. 467), "What are the demands of the Science of Soul?" And the answer is given: "The first demand of this Science is, 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me.' This me is Spirit. Therefore the command means this: Thou shalt have no intelligence, no life, no substance, no truth, no love, but that which is spiritual. The second is like unto it, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.'"

As you learned in Sunday School, this is the very foundation stone of Christian Science, and with this understanding you are equipped to live happily and successfully and to deal intelligently with problems of health, schoolwork, and play. But sometimes even seasoned students of Christian Science have moments when they seem to forget that God gives His children dominion over evil and discord, and allow disturbed and unloving thoughts to take possession of them for a while.

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