" I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee." This outburst of the sweet singer of Israel takes on a new meaning as the Christian Scientist awakes to the true understanding of the "new song" in the new tongue, for the "instrument of ten strings" may be taken for the purpose of illustration as type of the Ten Commandments in their completeness of spiritual interpretation, as revealed in divine Science.
The glory and blessing of Christian Science is that through its complete revelation of the truth contained in the First Commandment, it clarifies all the rest, giving to each its full depth of tone and showing the divine law which blends all in perfect accord. To teach the Ten Commandments to the unfolding thought of little children in the Christian Science Sunday School is a profound and beautiful experience. Nothing can bring a truer humility than the blessed task of teaching the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, and the Lord's Prayer to little children, that they may be suffered to come to Christ, Truth, even as Jesus called them to him. With the new song awakened by the mighty First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," the children begin with divine Love, and with Love they enter into the eternal sense of being and grasp the divine Principle of all true existence. The true teacher also becomes as a little child, receptive, eager, obedient to divine authority; and with the children he learns to catch more and more of the celestial music of Love's purpose, method, and power.
"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up." How true this is in the light of Christian Science! As we are loosed from the material sense of man's origin, we understand the source of all true existence, and can honor the infinite Father-Mother God as never before. In this newborn sense of eternal Life our days are long in the land which God gives, the realm of the real, of infinite Mind, Spirit. Then we understand what it means not to adulterate the spiritual concept of Life by any theory of matter as a life-giver; as substance or intelligence. We learn that we must not steal—even in thought—by seeking to take away any of the treasure, the perfection, of God's child, through covetousness, false witnessing, hate; through any sort of limiting, destructive human hypothesis. Thus we learn to labor for Love with such thoroughness as to gain a true sabbath sense of rest, a holy realization of God's day.
