Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in her tenderly beautiful poem, "To the Sunday School Children," includes the prayer (Poems, p. 43):
"Father, in Thy great heart hold them
Ever thus as Thine!
Shield and guide and guard them; and when
At some siren shrine
They would lay their pure hearts' off'ring,
Light with wisdom's ray—
Beacon beams—athwart the weakly,
Rough or treacherous way."
Through the revelation of Christian Science a wonderful opportunity is presented to parents and Sunday school teachers to teach their children and young people the great fundamental facts of spiritual reality so that these spiritual facts will serve to "shield and guide and guard them" all their lives.
