Article October 12, 1940 Issue

Your Example

[Written Especially for Children]

DOROTHY EMERSON

The writer served for a time as a counselor in a girls' camp in New England. One of the girls in her tent was a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School. Her willing co-operation and cheerful obedience were noticed in this large camp. The counselor knew nothing then about the teachings of Christian Science, but she was clearly conscious that little Peggy had an understanding of God that not only kept her happy but also protected her from danger and wrongdoing.

Peggy was the only person in camp who knew anything about Christian Science. Every day she would go to a quiet place in the woods during rest hour and read the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. She never realized how helpful her example and childlike faith were to those around her.

In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 110), Mrs. Eddy says: "Beloved children, the world has need of you,—and more as children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives. You need also to watch, and pray that you preserve these virtues unstained, and lose them not through contact with the world. What grander ambition is there than to maintain in yourselves what Jesus loved, and to know that your example, more than words, makes morals for mankind!"

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