Article March 27, 1943 Issue

True or False?

[of Special Interest to Children]

RUTH T. STAHL

John hurried home one day, eager to tell his mother about the lovely new game they had learned at school called "True or False?" It was just like the grown-ups' program on the radio. It was so much fun learning about the cities of our country that way that it was no work at all. From then on "True or False?" helped John with all his schoolwork, and he and his mother had many good times learning together.

Then, one night, John woke up in the dark with such a pain in his ear that he cried out for his mother. She hurried to his bedside, and with her arms around him whispered, "True or false?" It seemed very true to John, but his mother talked to him in a low voice, reminding him of the wonderful truths he had learned in the Christian Science Sunday School, and at home too. She told him that God is Love, and that God made everything and made it good; that an earache is not good, so God did not make it; and if God did not make it, it was not made at all, for He made everything that was real. So an earache was not something real and true; it was false! As his mother talked in this way, the pain grew less. Then she sat in the chair beside John's bed and sang Mary Baker Eddy's hymn (Poems, p. 4), "O gentle presence, peace and joy and power."

The next thing John knew, the morning sun was streaming in through his window. He bounded out of bed and ran to his mother. "An earache is false!" he shouted. "It really is false!"

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