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than love of popularity, should stimulate clerical labor
and progress. Truth should emanate from the pulpit,
but never be strangled there. A special privilege is vested
in the ministry. How shall it be used? Sacredly, in the
interests of humanity, not of sect.
Is it not professional reputation and emolument rather
than the dignity of God's laws, which many leaders seek?
Do not inferior motives induce the infuriated attacks on
individuals, who reiterate Christ's teachings in support
of his proof by example that the divine Mind heals sickness
as well as sin?
(A mother's responsibility)
A mother is the strongest educator, either for or
against crime. Her thoughts form the embryo of another
mortal mind, and unconsciously mould
it, either after a model odious to herself or
through divine influence, "according to the pattern
showed to thee in the mount." Hence the importance
of Christian Science, from which we learn of the one
Mind and of the availability of good as the remedy for
every woe.
(Children's tractability)
Children should obey their parents; insubordination
is an evil, blighting the buddings of self-government.
Parents should teach their children at the
earliest possible period the truths of health
and holiness. Children are more tractable than adults,
and learn more readily to love the simple verities that will
make them happy and good.
Jesus loved little children because of their freedom
from wrong and their receptiveness of right. While
age is halting between two opinions or battling with
false beliefs, youth makes easy and rapid strides towards
Truth.
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