Article November 5, 1938 Issue

A Standard Bearer

[Written Especially for Young People]

MARY FRANCES MYERS

A Young Christian Scientist happened to be sitting alone one day in a recreation room in her college. She, Jane, was unseen by a group of girls entering the room, and was surprised to hear that they were speaking of her. Before Jane could make known her presence to them, she heard one of the group say: "She's a Christian Scientist, you know, and I remember when we were children, in grammar school, that she fell one day and hurt her knee quite badly, but she jumped right up and said, 'It doesn't hurt me!' I wonder if it didn't?"

At this point the group went on into another room, and the Christian Scientist sat alone, greatly amazed at what she had heard. She was astonished to think that her classmate had remembered so small an incident for several years, when she who had had the experience had forgotten it.

Jane thought to herself, If the world is watching Christian Scientists half as closely as that child watched me, it behooves me to be very, very careful in my actions. She could think of many times when she had not made use of the truths that she had learned in Sunday school as she should have done. And she felt a little chagrined to think of the times when she had been far from a model Christian Scientist. Somehow, she had never realized so clearly before that she, as a Christian Scientist, had a very sacred trust. She was a standard bearer of good thoughts; of good words and good works. It was for her, for every Scientist, to show the world what it means to be one. She thought of the verse in James (2:18) which reads, "Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works."

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