WORDS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD’S INTELLIGENCE

Having very intelligent children is the dream of every parent, but be aware, intelligence is appreciated by one’s ability to realize concrete connections between the tone of words (language) and its meaningful representation.

Teaching our children to communicate by using clear and meaningful words is a prime necessity to ensure an accurate development of their intelligence. The ability to express thoughts and feelings in words that are meaningful and coherent is a good measure of a child’s intelligence.

To master a language is to have a natural aptitude in connecting the tone of the “Word” with its meaningful representation as registered in the cerebral file, if not, be assured that the assimilation process is incomplete.

The child confronts a language dilemma that over time if constantly repeated can burn his cerebral aptitudes to assimilate. One may say he becomes unintelligent. Unfortunately this is the condition imposed on our children by the French system of education, a total disregard for the child’s natural language.

Parents, educators and teachers primary concern in educating children is to ensure that the teaching language permits the child to be always capable of associating the sounds or tone of the words with their physical image or concept as registered in her or his cerebral file.

Children's intelligence can be appreciated from the clarity of their language, their ability to connect and express their thoughts in truthful and concrete words, well fitted in context.


Church Greetings

Transcending regular school’s teaching, Church training is to play a prime role in developing children and young people knowledge and sense of the “Word”, for as Christians our belief in God is grounded on the “Word”. Our original curse is the price we pay for our disregard to the meaning of the “Word”, and subsequently disobedience to God commands.

When we teach our children to stand on a pulpit, eyes to eyes with mother, father, grand parents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, neighbors, elders, school friends etc, and greets all in terms of “Good morning Church”, we are teaching them to ‘depersonalize’ their close surroundings.

It is incoherent to have a methodical attitude regarding “Words” of the Holy Scriptures and a scatterbrained attitude regarding words we use in our daily and brotherly relations.

Greeting one another is keeping alive the flame of our friendly, brotherly and family affection, and this can only be achieved in an exaltation of personal feelings one towards each other and not by evoking impersonal concept and closing eyes to our close and natural relation.

By hailing the congregation “Church” from the pulpit, our close circle suddenly becomes impersonal and anonymous. It is teaching children to embrace an abstract and impersonal language against the affectionate language in which they have identified their surroundings from childhood and expressed but love and affection.

Be assured this behavior can only have a counter-intelligent impact on our children.

Greeting the congregation from the pulpit in terms of “Church” may be of ‘no problem’ for some but it can be very heartbreaking for others sensitive to the fact that language reflects attitude and attitude reflects quality of godly and brotherhood relations within the CHURCH.

Greeting a composite assembly or television viewers in terms of “Church” finds its sense in its particular context. Here the targeted are individuals that by irony, belongs to no Church, generally the victims of society exclusion. The sense in hailing them Church may instill them with a sense of belonging or being part of a whole.

But greeting the congregation of an organized Church in terms of “Church” has the opposite sense. Because it dashes our sense of close and intimate links and in the place, instills a sense of anonymity or impersonality one in regards of the other, obviously contrary to the multiple natural links that can attach in the reality one to the other mostly in little local churches as St-Martin’s Methodist Churches.

When coming from children addressing a congregation including parents and grand parents aunts and uncles, hailing them “Church” even takes a blasphemous tone in the ears of people concerned over the right way to educate children.

As a matter of fact, Church is not an emanation of relationship one with another but more of a spiritual relationship with God through the spiritual body of his Son Jesus Christ risen from the dead.

Likely as a corporate created by its associates, gains its own moral personality distinct from its associates, so should be considered a Church as a Christian body. The Congregation constitutes the associates of the Church, but it is pretentious to take Church as synonymous with congregation.

In the context of an organized Church, to hail the congregation ‘Church’ seems also pejorative because if the physical congregation constitutes the Church on the other hand Church is not defined as a physical congregation but as the people of God, destined to inherit the kingdom of God and this include physical bodies as well as spiritual bodies, primary the risen Jesus Christ and God’s Angels.

All through the Holy Scriptures we note that a clear distinction is observed between the Church and its physical congregation, the former is perfect the latter is potentially imperfect.

Brotherhood feelings are primarily observed and maintained in personalized warm and hearty greeting.



There is power in the “Word”. A Nation that overlooks the true sense of the “word” or disregards the need to fit words in their meaningful context is like a people that light a lamp and put it under a bowl.

Words are like a lighted lamp on its stand, it gives light to everyone in the house.

Culture is not a nostalgic grip on our ancestral manners and customs. A great writer once said: “Culture is what remains when all is forgotten”. That should be our attitude.

People ought to progress in their culture and the contribution of foreign civilization can be very fruitful but in this perspective it must be contextually fitted and contributes to an intelligible enrichment culture and not adopted in the manner of a blunt substitution.

Mr. Alexandre VIOTTY: The Word

DEDICATED TO: Mr. Alexandre VIOTTY

Acquaintance with Mr. Alexandre VIOTTY is like being acquainted with culture, philosophy, Christianity, history, politics and society life of an authentic St-Martiner, for at the age of 88, true son of the sol, of European and African slave descent, he remains a living incarnation of his country’s the spirit and a devoted witness of the facts leading St-Martin from its days of slavery to what it has become today.

Mr. Alexandre VIOTTY is an icon of knowledge, wisdom and Christian faith, strong believer in God. He has the profound belief that his survival over numerous threats of death is thanks to his dedication to God’s “natural Word”, the Bible and God’s “living Word”, the spiritual life of the risen Jesus Christ.

It is a great honor and privilege to “THE ELDER” to dedicate to him this issue. However, it will take the publication of a special book to contain the stories of Mr. Alexandre VIOTTY on St-Martin’s realities and facts. We do not have pages for that, so in this issue we wish to only refer to his theology on the “WORD”. His thoughts are factual and inspiring. “THE ELDER” wish to continue with the same philosophy throughout this entire issue.

Mr. Alexandre VIOTTY believes in Church but the ‘Life’ of Churches can be deceiving. Given eloquence to the word may often be present, but perceiving the exalting ‘Living Word’ is often defaulted. The once brotherly feelings and attitude is today undermined by the notion of rank.

He claims that there is the congregation of the Church and there is the Church’s congregation, the first may overlap the second to a certain degree, but it is important to distinct one from the other because only the second is constituted of God’s chosen, composed not only of natural bodies but also spiritual bodies, the spiritual living body of the risen Jesus Christ, God’s Angels and incarnations of the “Living Word”.

M. Alexandre VIOTTY has no other interpretation to the death of Jesus Christ than a necessary process so that every believer may become a spiritual incarnation of the Holy Word. He claims: “Man has become the dwelling place of a permanent duel between the “Good spirit” and the “Evil spirit”.


Mr. Alexandre VIOTTY regrets the fact that Churches in St-Martin are not open minded to the unfamiliar. He claims that the hierarchy within the Church is not the hierarchy of the Holy Spirit. No one can tell to whom will be revealed the secrets of God’s Kingdom, for this reason leaders of the Church should not only tend their ears to the familiar follower but as well to the unfamiliar believer.

Mr. Alexandre VIOTTY acknowledged many experiences of communication with the Holy Spirit in the form of visions, but also in live voices. At times it may be visions on personal matters or messages to be delivered to others.

He gives examples of live spiritual communications or of live spiritual exhortations to use the power of his faith in God at times he found himself confronted with overwhelming dilemmas, in theses circumstances his commands in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ have always proven his power through God to be real.

He is a member of the Global Mission Church, but the high sonority in Churches is incompatible with his hearing so in reality he organizes his own little Home-Church with his family and a few faithful friends.

He is fully confident in his outlook on life but has the regretful feeling of not been recognized and considered at his true value and as God’s messenger. We are all potential messengers of God. The question of being familiar or unfamiliar in society is not what matter to God.


Mr. Alexandre VIOTTY is also unsatisfied by the fact that in spite of all of his endeavours, he did not fully succeed in finding the necessary common grounds of communication so that he could have offer to his country as much as he had received from it and so contribute more efficiently to the overall uplift of his surroundings and successive generations.

He claims: “Individualism has taken a decisive turn in our way of life, likely a culture by adoption, as so sharing values with neighbors and even with children, grounded on true values and mutual recognition is hard to find in St-Martin”

M. Alexandre VIOTTY daily happiness is having his hands in his garden growing vegetables and food crops, having his hands in the fruitful soil of God’s earth is being in connection with the source of life, and this enriches his spirit as he remains in permanent and intimate relation with the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ.

All may not look like happiness in his surroundings, but by immersing himself into his profound belief in the Bible and assured of being an incarnation of the “Living Word”, M. Alexandre VIOTTY counts himself to be exceptionally privileged and exalts in his praises to God.

Mr. Alexandre VIOTTY, has an exceptional concern and philosophy on the “Word”. In substance we retain the following thoughts from our talks with M. Alexandre VIOTTY:

God’s covenant with Adam and Eve was based on obedience to the "Word”. The eternal price to pay for the broken covenant is the fall of Man. Henceforth man inherited the evil spirit.

Our reminder in seeking redemption should be: Words are meaningful, their sense context-dependent: As written in “James1: 22: “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.”

In the context of other covenants, God had manifested himself to Noah, Abraham, David, Moses and in many other circumstances, in “words” through the voice of his Angels.

Moses in obedience to God’s instructions transcribed the “word” and it becomes the law upon which God’s kingdom on earth with his chosen people was established.

But God’s chosen people, instead of abiding in the spirit and true meaning of God’s “Word”, have appropriated the law and as result, the “word” has become the interpretation of man’s self- ambitious will and as so, meaningless to God’s desires.

Therefore God send his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ into the world, as to restore the true meaning of his “Word” to the accomplishment of his desires.

Jesus Christ came into the world as a natural body therefore his death was the necessary process so that he becomes a spiritual body with the power to incarnate or to communicate with man’s spiritual being.

God through his Son Jesus Christ, in a new covenant with man, has created on earth a new kingdom governed by the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ.

God’s Word, has taken a spiritual form: The “Living Word”.

Henceforth the perfect perception and obedience of God’s “word”(The Bible) is ensured because the true believer becomes an incarnation of the spiritual body of Jesus Christ.

The living Word is directly accessible to all human being, considered in his individuality and not necessarily as a descendant or as a chosen nation.

Every human being that accepts Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior becomes an incarnation of the “Living Word”. Our life becomes a meaningful reflector of God’s word and we can no more be misled.

Man is the incarnation of two spirits: The spirit of evil transmitted by man’s original curse ( Adam and Eve) and the spirit of “Good” we inherited by the redemption of our sins, possible through the death of Jesus Christ and his risen into a spiritual body.

The spirit of good is but potential in the sense that it becomes manifest in us only by our option to believe and have faith in Jesus Christ and our obedience to God’s “word”.

John 1:14: “ The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us”

The natural or writing word is the Bible. The living word is Jesus Christ. One without the next is meaningless. John14: 6: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”