Editorial April 19, 1952 ISSUE

TEACHING THE CHILDREN

Richard J. Davis

No greater privilege, no more sacred trust, can be bestowed on a Christian Scientist than the opportunity to teach Christian Science to the budding thought of children. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the revelator of Christian Science, writes (p. 236): "Jesus loved little children because of their freedom from wrong and their receptiveness of right. While age is halting between two opinions or battling with false beliefs, youth makes easy and rapid strides towards Truth."

The word education, derived from the Latin educere—to bring or lead out—takes on a higher significance in the understanding of Christian Science, for education rightly understood does not consist in imposing the personal opinions or concepts of one human or mortal mind on another so-called unenlightened mortal mind, but rather brings to light the fact that man in his true and forever perfection already knows and possesses all good. It reveals the fact that man is now and always has been the expression or reflection of omniscience.

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