Article October 19, 1935 ISSUE

"It's a family affair"

MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL

Recently, while walking in the busy section of a city, a student of Christian Science overheard one person saying to another, "Of course, the boy is bad-tempered and greedy, just like his father; it's a family affair!"

How good it is to know, when an unscientific statement such as this falls on our ears, that we need not, like the priest and Levite, pass hurriedly by on the other side, but can, instead, even in the midst of a crowded city, figuratively hold out a hand to these strangers by realizing that no son of God has for an instant fallen from his original purity and perfection.

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