Article November 13, 1943 Issue

Progress Maintained

[Of Special Interest to Children]

CARRIETTA FULTON SIMPSON

One afternoon a little girl, six years of age, returned from school, burst into the house almost in tears, and running to her mother exclaimed, "I don't want ever, ever to go back to that school again."

Her mother was amazed to see this usually cheery and light-hearted child so resentful and perturbed. She had always been a sincere little Christian Scientist, quick to forgive and to forget. She had often worked out her own problems since starting in the Christian Science Sunday School at the age of three, and, as a rule, misunderstandings among her playmates were seldom brought to her mother's attention. But on this particular afternoon, resentment had closed the door on love, and angrily she related an experience which seemed very unkind and unjust to her childish thought. "All just because I couldn't cut out an elephant in art class," was the indignant explanation.

The mother tried to comfort her little daughter by talking to her as she had often done before when inharmonies had arisen. But on this occasion the child's thought was so filled with resentment that her words fell on heedless ears. Seeing that it was not the right moment to reason with her the mother waited for the child to be ready to see and accept the real and the true, and to unsee and reject that which was false and untrue about God's man.

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