Article October 26, 1940 Issue

Reflection

[Written Especially for Children]

OLIVER STEVENSON ANNABLE

ONE sunny day a boy was walking along a street with a small mirror in the palm of his hand. He was amusing himself by catching the sun's rays on his mirror and making the reflected light run up and down the sides of buildings and the trunks of trees.

Suddenly he saw a woman stooping down and looking at the sidewalk in a darkly shaded space between two buildings. Remembering the story of the good Samaritan which he had studied in the Christian Science Sunday School, he crossed the street, touched his cap, and asked if he might be of any help. "I dropped a coin from my purse," the woman said, "and it rolled into that dark corner." He searched and searched, but did not see the coin. Then he remembered the mirror which was still in his hand. Catching the sun's rays again, he flashed the light into every corner and crevice, and there, in the farthest corner, was an answering flash from the coin. The woman was very grateful.

As the boy continued on his way he thought to himself that he was not very big or very old, but he could reflect some of God's love to others. Had he not reflected divine Love in helping this woman? He knew that his mother and his Sunday school teacher would be glad to hear of what had happened.

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