Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has given us valuable help in the true education of the rising generation. In one of her letters she writes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 252), "The entire purpose of true education is to make one not only know the truth but live it—to make one enjoy doing right, make one not work in the sunshine and run away in the storm, but work midst clouds of wrong, injustice, envy, hate; and wait on God, the strong deliverer, who will reward righteousness and punish iniquity."
To love the truth and to live it, to work in sunshine and in storm—this is the object of true education, whether one works alone or with others. Let us consider the application of this basic point in education to the work of the teacher in our Christian Science Sunday Schools or to anyone connected with the care and upbringing of children.
Just before the betrayal and crucifixion of Jesus, one of his disciples, Simon Peter, told the Master that he was ready to follow him into prison or even to death. Then the Way-shower predicted that Peter would deny him three times. And he also said to his impulsive disciple (Luke 22:32), "I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren."
