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use of the rod

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Announcements › Forums › Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real? – April 14th, 2019 › use of the rod

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  • April 13, 2019 at 5:06 pm #8471
    BarbaraW
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    Mrs. Eddy wrote, “The use of the rod is virtually a declaration to the child’s mind that sensation belongs to matter. Motives govern acts, and Mind governs man. If you make clear to the child’s thought the right motives for action, and cause him to love them, they will lead him aright: if you educate him to love God, good, and obey the Golden Rule, he will love and obey you without your having to resort to corporeal punishment.” Miscellaneous Writings P. 51

    So, as I understand it, that is the ideal way, but she also wrote the following: “Wisdom in human action begins with what is nearest right under the circumstances, and thence achieves the absolute.” Miscellaneous Writings P. 288

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    From this morning’s Bible Study discussion it seemed pretty much agreed that corporeal punishment may be or is at times the “nearest right under the circumstances” though it must always be used wisely and never out of anger.

    April 14, 2019 at 11:19 am #8477
    Pilar Deblinger
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    I don’t agree that corporeal punishment is ever necessary. Mrs Eddy was right in her above mentioned statement. As a former recipient of the so called corporeal punishment when a child,I can assure you it only instills fear,distrust,anger,and hate. I’m very disappointed that his was even discussed as “sometimes necessary”. IT IS NEVER RIGHT!! to hit a child.

    April 14, 2019 at 1:32 pm #8479
    BarbaraW
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    Thanks so much for your response, grateful to have it.

    April 16, 2019 at 1:58 pm #8506
    Florence
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    The punishment that should NEVER be used I feel, is any correcting without LOVE!! Mrs. Eddy is also talking about the “Wisdom in human action begins with what is nearest right under the circumstances, and thence achieves the absolute.” Miscellaneous Writings P. 288

    I do know that if a child is “running towards a cliff” and they do not listen to your words, the right human action, which is the nearest right under the circumstances, would be taken because you Love enough to save the child.
    I have also heard of many cases where words alone have had such an imprinted gross effect on children than if an occasional correcting had been done with Love and a “rod.”

    Mrs Eddy gives the best way, to teach them to Love good to begin with!! We learn to have Love conduct our homes!!!

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