Article December 11, 1948 Issue

THE LIGHTED CANDLE

[Of Special Interest to Children]

CONSTANCE HEWARD

One day during the Christmas holidays in England, David's mother amused him by making a Christmas cracker, or snapper, for him out of a pocket handkerchief. The handkerchief was blue with a pretty scalloped border, and the make-believe cracker looked exactly like a real paper one. Before his mother began to fold the handkerchief into shape, David sometimes played a small toy on it. Then, when they each took an end of the cracker and pulled, it opened, and out dropped the toy.

Now David wanted very much to be able to make a cracker by himself. He thought how nice it would be to take the blue handkerchief to school and show the boys and girls in his class how they could make one too. Again and again he watched his mother fold and press the handkerchief into shape. But when she left him to do it alone, David always forgot how the folds should go. It seemed to him as if he never would learn how to make a cracker.

A week went by, and on Sunday morning David went to the Christian Science Sunday School, as he always did. After the Sunday School lesson was over, the teacher gave the children in David's class a little verse from the Bible to learn at home. As soon as he reached home, David found it in his Bible. It was the twenty-eighth verse of the eighteenth Psalm, and he read it aloud to his mother: "For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness."

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