Editorial February 15, 1982 Issue

Teaching our children spiritual evolution

BEULAH M. ROEGGE

Children, as they grow up, just naturally peer back into history, and beyond, to find out how they happen to be. There are spiritual answers to their questions—answers that provide an intelligent premise for evaluating all theories of creation and evolution to which they may be exposed throughout their education. This basic premise is stated by Mary Baker Eddy, not alone as an understanding of what has happened, but as a provable proposition of what is: "Creation, evolution, or manifestation,—being in and of Spirit, Mind, and all that really is,—must be spiritual and mental. This is Science, and is susceptible of proof."^{ Miscellaneous Writings, p. 27.}

To teach a child spiritual evolution is to tell him of the glory of man's continuing nature, forever unfolding. And what he learns about his own true selfhood as "being in and of Spirit, Mind," will never change from this basic premise. Spiritual evolution manifests "all that really is" or ever will be. Teaching such Christianly scientific truths gives the child an enduring foundation for understanding himself through all the changes of human life.

Helping a child understand that being good wakens him to his true nature gives a basis for morality, and direction for meaningful accomplishment. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Goodness reveals another scene and another self seemingly rolled up in shades, but brought to light by the evolutions of advancing thought, whereby we discern the power of Truth and Love to heal the sick."^{ Ibid., pp. 1-2.}