The Bible Speaks to You August 13, 1966 Issue

[The above is an abbreviated, postproduction text of the program released for broadcast the week of August 5-11 in the radio series, "The Bible Speaks to You." Heard internationally over approximately 1,000 stations, the weekly programs are prepared and produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.]

RADIO PROGRAM NO. 227 - Challenge to Youth: How Do You Judge?—Part I

Announcer: Youth is a time when ideas take shape and values are established. Young people like to reject anything that isn't genuine. But many seem to lack a basis for judgment, a standard to help them determine what's really worthwhile and what isn't.
Questioner: Most young people want to come to their own conclusions about what is worthwhile. But it isn't easy. Even an everyday decision such as what to read, what movie to see, or where to go on a date involves basic values. Where can the basis for genuine values be found?
Speaker: I think, at the outset, we should say that many young people have sounder values than they're given credit for having. But in order to find and to practice sounder values, they've had to look beyond merely following the crowd and the opinion polls.

It seems to me that the basic challenge lacing young people and adults is the problem of determining what is genuine It's an age-old problem that's put forward very frankly in the Bible where it says (Job 34:4), "Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good."

Questioner: Parents probably follow one of two approaches to moral education. Either they lay down hard-and-fast rules about what time to get in at night, use of the automobile, what movies to see, and so forth, or they let young people pretty much decide for themselves as each situation comes up. Now, does Christian Science follow either of these approaches, or does it combine the two?

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