Article August 6, 1949 Issue

KNOWING THE TRUTH

[Of Special Interest to Children]

MADELINE C. HIGINBOTHAM

Bill and Bob were good friends. They played together every day. One morning when Bill went to Bob's house, Bob's mother met him at the door with a very sad face. She told him that the night before, Bob had been awakened with a severe pain and the doctor said that he would have to perform an operation. This was bad news for Bill, who loved his friend dearly. But he began at once to think about the things he had learned during the last few years in the Christian Science Sunday School. He remembered that God is Love, and that the Bible says (I John 4:18), "Perfect love casteth out fear." He knew that fear is not real and that Truth makes men free.

His Sunday School teacher had explained that disease is unreal, and that man is always the perfect child of God, even though sometimes error seems to hide his health or happiness. "It is like the sky on a cloudy day," the teacher had said. "The sun is up there shining, but the dark, heavy clouds hide it."

Bill knew that this error which seemed to be part of his friend's experience was not real. "First: God never made evil. Second: He knows it not. Third: We therefore need not fear it," Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Unity of Good" (p. 20). Bill wanted Bob to know this truth, too, and to be well again.

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