We need to be grateful for the many young people who, through the work of faithful Sunday School teachers and loving parents and through their own sincerity, have gained a working knowledge of Christian Science and are using it in their homes, in military service, in business, and in branch church activities.
There are those, however, who seem to have similar opportunities but under stress of present-day situations stray from their early training. Also there are university students who indicate a preference for Christian Science when registering at the beginning of the semester but do not go to the Christian Science college organization meetings, which are provided for their inspiration and protection.
Many may wonder how these things can be. A contributing cause may be our failure to teach children to work for themselves. When a child, faced with a problem, physical or otherwise, is healed solely by the prayers either of one of his parents or of a Christian Science practitioner, he himself may be required to do little or nothing in the way of using his own spiritual understanding. Under such circumstances he may take the healing as a matter of course, like his daily breakfast. He is unimpressed with the incident, for although others have proved the availability of the law of God in his behalf, he himself has not proved it. Too much is often done for young people materially. It may also be that too much is often done for them metaphysically.
