Article August 16, 1952 Issue

PATHS

[Of Special Interest to Children]

GWENDOLEN A. MITCHELL

When Alice was a little girl she used to be sent for long periods to a farm in the country because her mother thought the country air helped to keep her well and strong. Alice loved the farm. She loved it in the summer and she loved it in winter too, especially when the snow fell thick and white. After the town the country seemed very beautiful to her in its white covering of snow.

As soon as the first fall of snow was down, the children and the farm hands would go out to cut paths with shovels and sweep them clean with brushes. There was the path to the hen houses, where the speckled hens lived that laid the nice brown eggs. Then there was the path to the granary, where the food was kept for the hens that laid the eggs. The apples and pears and vegetables were kept there, too; so it was important to have this path clean. Then there was the path to the stockyards, where the cows lived that gave the milk, and the path to the barn, where their food was kept. All these paths had to be made and kept clean in order that the people who lived on the farm and those who depended on the farm for milk, butter, and eggs could be fed.

When Alice grew older her mother heard of Christian Science, and Alice did not need to go to the farm any more because her mother had learned that God could keep her daughter well just as easily in the town as in the country. Alice, too, learned about Christian Science and loved it. One day when she was reading the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly she found several references to paths.

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