Article March 18, 1950 Issue

DEMONSTRATING WHAT WE UNDERSTAND

ELSIE MORGAN

"Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart ... that I may discern between good and bad,"asked Solomon of God (I Kings 3:9). The prophet Jeremiah also saw that understanding is better than all earthly riches. "Let him that glorieth," we read (Jer. 9:24), "glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me [God]."

A woman who was not a Christian Scientist, but who sent her children to a Christian Science Sunday School, asked their teacher, "When you tell my children that evil is not real, and that they need not fear anything because God is ever prevail to protect them, do you mean that they will come to no harm playing with snakes or approaching wild animals?"

"No," said the teacher, "I certainly do not, for your children do not understand sufficiently."

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