Article January 15, 1916 Issue

"Out of the mouth of babes"

ELMA E. WILLIAMS

As a man was driving an automobile along a country road one day last summer, one wheel of the machine dropped into a rut. The effort to extricate the car caused it to veer across the road and collide with a boy who was coming from the opposite direction on his bicycle. The bicycle was smashed, and before the driver could stop the car, two wheels—a front and a rear one—had passed over the boy's body. The driver was badly frightened, and ere he could collect his wits sufficiently to find out what had happened to the boy, the lad was standing beside him and saying, "Don't be alarmed, sir, I'm not hurt a bit."

Following this car was another automobile in which was a veterinary surgeon, who had witnessed the accident. This man refused to accept the boy's statement that he was unharmed. From his standpoint it seemed impossible that a heavy car could pass over a child's body without doing it some harm. He kindly took the lad and his broken bicycle home. On arriving there he insisted that an examination should be made, and to satisfy him the mother examined the boy's body and found it absolutely unharmed.

Now this mother is a working Christian Scientist, and by this is meant that she uses her understanding of Christian Science in a practical, sensible way, and teaches her children to use theirs in the same manner. She does not do their Science work for them, but has them do it. If the problem seems tolerably hard for them, her attention is directed toward increasing the children's understanding of Truth rather than toward relieving them of demonstrating it. Her children are sent to a Christian Science Sunday school and are taught to study the Lesson-Sermon as regularly and as thoroughly as they study their lessons for school. Then if discords arise they are taught to use what they have gained from their study in solving the difficulty.

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