Article June 27, 1964 Issue

Signs of the Times

Thomas E. Powers

The Laymen's Movement Review

Thomas E. Powers Author and advertising copywriter in The Laymen's Movement Review Rye, New York

No one can bring up a child properly without direct and constant help from the child's Creator. The Holy Spirit of the Divine Parent must work through the human parent, or the necessary love and wisdom simply are lacking....

From the earliest age the child must be grounded in God.... Education in God must be prior to, and must take precedence over, all other kinds of education. This does not mean that the child is forced; on the contrary, only in this way can he be truly and deeply persuaded. And it does not mean that he is reared in an excessively religious atmosphere. ("Excessively religious" is a contradiction in terms; too much insistence upon the forms of religion is not true religion and can be the death of true religion.) It does mean keeping first things first in the growth of the child and not permitting the Lord and Giver of Life to be ignored in the daily details of life....

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