Article August 3, 1981 Issue

The child we all are

CHARLES HOLLIS GREEN

From my study window on the ninth floor, I look over a public park where young children are at play, bounding and skipping with happy freedom, innocence, abandon. Their freshness of movement finds an instant response in the watcher, and my heart leaps up. The child has been awakened in me, which I may at times be tempted to think I had long since left behind.

No one needs to feel that he has lost his childhood or his innocence. In reality, the child of eternity—God's man—is always present in each one of us. It may seem obscured, but nevertheless it is there, ready to bubble forth at the impulsion of divine Love. Each moment can bring an increasing awareness of our perennial relationship with infinite Life, our one universal Parent. With the answer implicit, the Scriptures ask: "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?" ^{Mai. 2:10.}

Speaking to the congregation in her first address in The Mother Church in 1895, our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, concluded with these words: "Beloved children, the world has need of you,—and more as children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives."^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 110.} Her call is to each one of us, whether child, man, or woman, to find within our-self the pure child of God and to share it with others.