I have watched with no little interest the expressions in the Journal regarding a "Children's Quarterly"; noting particularly the one-sidedness of the subject. At first I heartily echoed the thought; but "a cloud, no bigger than a man's hand," appeared in the horizon of my mind, and when it began to assume greater proportions, I felt that it was time to analyze it. In the December Journal I found light. Another side to the question appeared. "A little child shall lead them," caught my attention, and then I saw what had clouded my understanding.
I am an ardent lover of children, and in my work among them I find that their purity of thought, and wonderful insight into Truth is a constant reproof to me. With my superior (?) knowledge I have often attempted to explain portions of Science and Health to the little ones, but their simple rendering of it has put me to shame. They catch the Spirit of Christian Science before we can grasp the letter.
In the article above referred to, in what seems to me the central thought, is a strong lesson for every Scientist; a lesson that needs to be carefully brought out. I have pondered it deeply, and wish to ask the author if I have solved the problem correctly. The paragraph containing the thought is this: "It is only this educated mortal thought—to which the parent is holding in the sense dream—error can use as a channel to voice this demand to adulterate Science and Health to meet the seeming want of the children. This want is in our concept of the child that Jesus is teaching us to become like."
