Show r u A 1 Plea lea for far the Children Q I pew knew a boy once quite wellI well I studied this thia boy J i knew the boy as fiS a tai man I studied the tn map P. P Have iye known l other boys and girls too Have I studied them macho mado careful comparison comparion compari compari- son on and in answer l to the oft heard quo y Why H are oro children bad bad will Sn say Children ar are Lad in ill the first place without knowing knowin it Tb They Y like grown people violate violate violate vio vio- late laws unwittingly ly later they hey are bad because they y Yi ld to impulse inherited d or acquired which prompts them to things that seem pleasurable Here i if told they must not they either do not accept the reason as valid or 01 question the authority author author- authority ity The Time third thin and last stage ta e is like unto the preceding on ones They still do know ho how w to to be good and nd persistently end and not riot unnaturally question the right of others to compel them Summing inv up the child of five ve or of seventy and nod five is bad because it has not learned the great life lesson how bow to be good and that it is beat beet to tobe tobe tobe be good 1 When it truly learns this it will not be bad ad for to the under under- standing soul the w way y of life is so plain and easy that the wayfaring man the tho a fool shall ahall not err therein Jk Some people no doubt will will dispute the correctness of my position To all nIl such I Will ill ill say Study yourself and see ee You may have safely ly passed the Uie had bad period in your life but that matters little You Xou are yet a human being with a human human human hu hu- man beings being's desires tendencies and weaknesses You are yet subject to the psychological laws which controlled you when a child You will vill be subject subject sub sub- to them so long as you are in the mortal body and possibly after you ou quit it Talk if you will about inherent in herent badness and the thousand and and one ways of era eradicating it lecture the children and punish punish punish pun pun- ish them weep bitt bitter r tears because because be be- cause of the shortcomings shortcoming of near and dear ones Do all of this and you may accomplish a minimum of good Why Because Be cause you have not understood the trouble hence have employ employed employed em em- ploy d wrong methods in try try- ing lo to o remove it Why wrong You cannot have a good woman or a good good man while the viewpoint viewpoint viewpoint view view- point is wrong and you cannot change the viewpoint to the souls soul's lasting betterment until it recognizes th the real nature of oi badness And what may this be Simply failure to grasp rasp first the purpose of the tIle Cre Creator tor and second his meth meth- od The purpose is the uplift of all life the method the proper use of all ll things Therefore Therefore Therefore There There- fore until you ou can thru turn the understanding of a human being being being be be- ing of whatever age have it see Bee and accept because of personal personal per per- knowledge the ri right ht use of things you may lecture legislate legisla legislate leg leg- isla e and punish but you will not have a good child or a good citizen It is a a psychological psychological psychological psycho psycho- logical impossibility and you cannot change the laws of God Knowledge e real understandable understand understand- able knowledge is the only T key that will open the way to goodness or to Ex |