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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

here?" a little boy recently asked his mother in despair, after having propounded the question in in to several of his elders. The origin of God is sure to be one of the problems raised. To meet it, one should be prepared to show that a Power or Life must always have existed, that there always was a world, some world, else the trees and animals, and boys and girls, could not exist to-day. The entire explanation concerning natural law has prepared the way for this climax. It should be based entirely upon the law of cause and effect.

Be especially explicit in speaking of the soul as an immortal, continuously living being, superior to death. Call attention again and again to life, life, the invisible essence behind and within all that fades and perishes. Explain that the soul abides with and is in direct touch with the Father, from whom all our noblest aspirations come. Make the whole conception living, human, simple, close, and tender. Show that all this is true in the living now. Show how the Father speaks to the soul as conscience, as peace, as love, even as a human friend.

Nothing is more important than to make clear this great fact that the child is a soul, not a physical being. If this is clearly understood, all else will be clear. The thought may be made tangible by explaining that the soul is that in us which feels, thinks, chooses, and acts; that it is the part of us which feels and knows God, which loves, which we love, which owns and uses the body as an instrument.

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