Article January 4, 1958 Issue

"REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY"

KATHARINE A. FORREST

Many parents are deeply desirous of impressing upon their children, from the time of their infancy, the importance of doing right. Wise and understanding parents are equally eager to have their offspring follow the way of righteousness through love of good rather than fear of evil.

Even in a home where support of the Cause of Christian Science is the central theme, there crops up occasionally the question as to why one should go to church or Sunday-School. This is likely to happen when something more attractive seems to have been offered to a pleasure-loving child or when school studies seem particularly-pressing to a more studious one.

The fallacious argument may even arise that because we can know God's presence wherever we are, we do not have to go to church to feel dose to Him. The suggestion may even come that if we recognize the spiritual meaning of the commandment in regard to keeping the Sabbath, we do not need to adhere to it literally by attending church. It is true, of course, that in time of stress it is a great comfort to feel that one can pray to his heavenly Father, even though he is far from a church building. But one should also realize that to hide behind this line of reasoning when there is no emergency does not make for healthy, spiritual growth. The church needs our individual support as much as we need the church. Some of the comfort we derive from church membership lies in the consciousness it gives us that we are wanted and needed and in the opportunity for Christian fellowship.

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