Article March 31, 1945 Issue

Man Cannot Fall Out of Mind, Good

[Of Special Interest to Youth]

MARGARET H. MURDOCH

To Peggy, holidays in Wales always meant picnics on the hills. The walk up was exhilarating and the view beautiful, but once up, the little girl feared to look down. There was a feeling she would fall if she did.

But that was before she began to attend a Christian Science Sunday School. There she was taught to use this simple Science every day. Gradually and quite naturally the understanding of God as divine Mind became clearer, and in her senior years at school she was often helped at examinations by the simple, heartfelt acknowledgment that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." This powerful statement of truth is made by Mary Baker Eddy on page 468 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

One day in school the gymnastics mistress told the class that they would soon start to practice rope-climbing—hand over hand, in sailor fashion. As she looked up at the ropes suspended from the rather lofty ceiling of the gymnasium, Peggy again felt the old fear of falling from a height. None of the other girls seemed perturbed, however, and she knew that even if only not to "lose face," she must tackle this fear right away. A Sunday intervened before the next gymnastics period, and on that day at Sunday school the one hundred and twenty-first Psalm was discussed in detail. Every word of that Psalm become very precious to Peggy, especially during the next few days.

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