Article October 31, 1953 Issue

PETER MAKES A DEMONSTRATION

[Of Special Interest to Children]

ABBY PERKINS BURNSIDE

Peter was a boy who had always lived in a Christian Science home and had always attended a Christian Science Sunday School. Because of what he had been taught at home and at Sunday School he knew a great deal about God, and he had learned that he was really God's idea, or image. He knew the words in the Bible (Gen. 1:26), "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

In Sunday School, Peter had been taught the Ten Commandments. The most important was the first one (Ex. 20:3): "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." To

Peter this meant that he was to love God most of all. He must not be afraid of anything, because if he was afraid, then he would not be loving God as he should; he would be having another god before the one God, who is good and kind and loving. If he had only one God, good, then only good could come to him, and he would always be well and happy.

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