Article January 20, 1951 Issue

THE SNOW MAN

[Of Special Interest to Children]

ELSA K. SANDLER

For three days the snow had been falling ever so gently, and now every clump of sagebrush and every twig looked as if it had been sprayed white for the Christmas season. The countryside appeared so soft, still, and peaceful that a Sunday School teacher broke into song as she drove toward the community schoolhouse where a Christian Science Society held its services and its Sunday School.

She also pondered the First Commandment (Ex. 20:3), "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," seeking a new, inspirational revelation of it which she could share with her class of little girls. The fact that "God created man in his own image" (Gen. 1:27) kept coming to her thought and she tried to correlate these two Bible citations.

A glance down the street, as she approached the schoolhouse, showed several snow men in the yards that had been made since the preceding Sunday. She could picture the glee on ruddy little faces as they fashioned these snow men and put caps on their heads, various things for eyes, and anything from a broom to a golf club in their arms.

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