Article December 13, 1947 Issue

A PRIVILEGE: SOMETHING WE LIKE TO DO

[Of Special Interest to Children]

MARION LOUISE KINNARD

When a teacher in a Christian Science Sunday School asked her class the question, "What is a duty?" one little girl replied, "Something we ought to do." When the teacher asked, "And what is a privilege?" the same little girl answered, "Something we like to do." Then a duty is a privilege when the thing we ought to do is also the thing we like to do.

When Mary Baker Eddy was seriously injured by a fall on the ice and the doctors could not help her, she asked to be alone with her Bible. She opened it to the ninth chapter of Matthew and read again the story of how Jesus healed a sick man who could not walk. As our Leader read this beautiful story, and glimpsed its spiritual significance, she was healed.

From that day on Mrs. Eddy worked to give Christian Science to the world, to help others to know God as she did. Could this have been merely a duty to her? No, because it was what she wanted to do more than anything else. In order to help others to understand the teachings and healings of Jesus, she wrote "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and many other books, and she founded the Christian Science church.

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