Article September 30, 1944 Issue

A Smiling Face

MARTHA J. BUCKNER

The small boy of the family had talked often to his playmates of the approaching visit of his grandmother, whom he loved very much. Shortly after her arrival, a little neighbor while playing with him said, "Your grandmother's old; she has white hair." Only a moment did he pause, and then as if stating a great fact he replied, "My grandmother is not old; she has a smiling face."

A face reflecting joy, kindness, selflessness never records the number of winters it has seen, but only larger experience.

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has written (Miscellaneous Writings, Pref., p. ix): "To preserve a long course of years still and uniform, amid the uniform darkness of storm and cloud and tempest, requires strength from above,—deep draughts from the fount of divine Love. Truly may it be said: There is an old age of the heart, and a youth that never grows old; a Love that is a boy, and a Psyche who is ever a girl. The fleeting freshness of youth, however, is not the evergreen of Soul; the coloring glory of perpetual bloom; the spiritual glow and grandeur of a consecrated life wherein dwelleth peace, sacred and sincere in trial or in triumph."

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