Article March 31, 1917 Issue

"As little children"

LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY

It is always a joy to older workers to see what children are accomplishing in Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy has called them "the hope of our race" (Pulpit and Press, p. 9), and surely we may well rejoice if in that which is regarded as our maturer consciousness there is found the same simple, unquestioning faith which characterizes the child thought and the child nature.

A mother who had been studying Christian Science for about two months, said to her little boy, who was manifesting a very discordant physical condition: "What shall we do, dear? Mother used to give you medicine for that, but we mustn't do that any more, must we?" "No," said the child; "now we are Scientists you must give me a treatment." "But I don't know how," said the mother anxiously. "I do," was the unexpected answer. "I heard about it in Sunday school yesterday. You must always begin everything by remembering that God is Love." He explained to his mother as best he knew, and then went off to his play, perfectly satisfied. In less than ten minutes the ailment was overcome.

One to whom the mother told the story found much to think about in the little incident, for she began to wonder whether in the face of all discordant conditions she too always began everything "by remembering that God is Love." If this were always done, and done perfectly, would not all else follow as an inevitable consequence? Christian Science teaches that "the vital part", the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. Without this, the letter is but the dead body of Science,—pulseless, cold, inanimate" (Science and Health, p. 113). This "vital part" the child had quickly grasped and made his own. May not we "children of a larger growth," who long for more instantaneous demonstrations of healing, learn something from this little practitioner of six? Might it not be well, when any problem presents itself for solution, to ask ourselves first of all if any part of it is in accord with Love and its perfect laws?

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