Article January 16, 1965 Issue

Surmounting the Claims of Adolescence

RUTH BURROWS

Until an understanding of what constitutes true maturity is obtained, we are all subject in some degree to the belief that development can be uncontrolled, unlovely, and uncertain.

Mrs. Eddy says on page 206 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "The advancing stages of Christian Science are gained through growth, not accretion; idleness is the foe of progress. And scientific growth manifests no weakness, no emasculation, no illusive vision, no dreamy absentness, no insubordination to the laws that be, no loss nor lack of what constitutes true manhood."

The following experience helped me to understand the truth of that statement. Sometime ago I had planned a day at home. Knowing this, my older children, who were on holiday, had asked some school friends to spend the afternoon with us. However, just before lunch, I received a telephone call making it necessary for me to go to town immediately on a business matter. I was not at all interested in leaving a number of teen-agers alone for the three hours it would take me to make the trip from our semirural home.

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