Article December 9, 1950 Issue

"CHILDREN WHEN TWELVE YEARS OLD"

[Of Special Interest to Children]

JANE W. MC KEE

Sunday School was over, and Jack lost no time in reaching his mother and saying breathlessly: "I want to join The Mother Church. Johnnie's going to, and may I, please?"

Jack's mother hugged her twelve-year-old son to her and said in a happy, quiet voice, "When we have finished our dinner and can sit down together in the study, let's talk it all over and ask for God's direction, shall we?" Mother's voice was so understanding that Jack knew that this was just what he most wanted to do.

Jack thought the dinner seemed longer than usual, but finally the dessert arrived, and after that came the talk with Mother in the study. Jack's mother read the definition of Church from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 583) and explained its two parts. Jack listened very carefully. He picked up a Hymnal and looked at the stamping on its cover of the Original Mother Church and the Extension. Mother told him of her joy in attending a service in the Extension once and how the Church had been built under Mrs. Eddy's direction.

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