"SUFFER the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God," said Christ Jesus (Mark 10: 14). Jesus loved little children; he restored them to life and health; he told his disciples that unless they became like little children, they could not enter the kingdom of heaven.
In 1888 Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, delivered a Christmas sermon in Boston, which was later printed in her book "Miscellaneous Writings." In this she said (p. 166): "The monument whose finger points upward, commemorates the earthly life of a martyr; but this is not all of the philanthropist, hero, and Christian. The Truth he has taught and spoken lives, and moves in our midst a divine afflatus. Thus it is that the ideal Christ—or impersonal infancy, manhood, and womanhood of Truth and Love —is still with us."
Christian Science teaches that God is Truth and Love, that He has made man in the image and likeness of Himself, and that therefore man is the complete expression of Truth and Love. This being so, man must in reality manifest not only manhood and womanhood, derived from his Father-Mother God, but also the "impersonal infancy" of Truth and Love. He must manifest not only such qualities as strength and intelligence, which are most commonly represented by manhood, not only those qualities of love and tenderness, most commonly represented by womanhood, but also whatever qualities most nearly correspond to infancy and childhood—freshness, spontaneity, and innocence.
