God—the Student's Help

[Of Special Interest to Youth]

ELLEN H. MADDEN

It is natural that we should all desire to achieve, and it is right for every young person to have the opportunity to complete his education and training in his chosen field of learning.

The young student with an understanding of Christian Science is thoroughly equipped for advancement, for he early learns to reach out in prayer to the all-knowing Mind for wisdom and guidance in every activity.

An article "Of Special Interest to Youth" which appeared in a recent Sentinel, relating how God could help us in examinations, reminded the writer of an experience she had had years ago, when a need of this kind was met.

Without any warning or previous review, a high school class was given an examination in English literature which would determine the semester's grade. Only four questions were written on the blackboard by the teacher. The young student was baffled by the first one and could think of nothing to write. She could not even remember what had been covered in the first chapters of the textbook.

The student finally turned completely away from the confusion and lifted her thought to God. She affirmed that all intelligence is of God, who is ever-present Mind, and therefore was revealing to her all she needed to know. She remembered the following words of Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 407): "If delusion says, 'I have lost my memory.' contradict it. No faculty of Mind is lost."

She went ahead answering the questions she knew, and finally returned to the one that had proved the stumblingblock. Quick as a flash the answer came, and her fingers fairly raced over the paper, for she found this was a subject most familiar to her, as her parents had early taught her poems and folklore by writers of the period in question who had contributed so richly to the literature of England. The examination paper was finished in time with joy and gratitude, and, needless to say, a good grade was part of her reward. A greater joy, however, was in the realization that God had answered her prayer. She had tested her understanding of Christian Science and proved God's nearness and love in an hour of need.

Glorious opportunities and experiences await every student who studies the textbook of Christian Science and faithfully applies the rules for demonstration contained in it. How natural it becomes to revere Mrs. Eddy for her untiring efforts, which have revealed to this age the glories of divine Mind, where wisdom, understanding, intelligence, and love are available to us at all times when we claim them as our heritage as children of God's loving care.

Can we not all turn in childlike faith to our heavenly Father and find the answer to our every problem? We earnestly long, as our dear Leader longed, for that day promised by Jeremiah when he said, "They shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord."

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