Article February 10, 1940 Issue

A Game with a Looking Glass

[Written Especially for Children]

JEAN ELSIE SANDERS

ONCE , years ago, little Allegra was playing a merry game with a looking glass. The morning sunlight, streaming in at the window, fell on the mirror which she held in her hand, and was reflected brightly on the wall, or the floor, or the ceiling, according to whichever way she turned the mirror. Around and around the room danced that gay, flashing light, pouring sunshine on everything it touched, falling on the plain rag rug just as cheerily as on the blue bowl of roses.

That morning has long ago slipped into the shadows of silent yesterdays, and Allegra has grown up and become a Christian Scientist, but she has not forgotten the looking glass game.

One day when she was thinking about the truths she had learned in Christian Science, the memory of reflected sunlight splashing on that blue bowl of roses danced across the years to her, and quite suddenly she saw more clearly what Christian Science means by the word "reflection."

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