Article March 28, 1953 Issue

BUILD DEEP, THEN HIGH

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

FAY C. MOSES

When Chuck was a small boy he attended the Christian Science Sunday School. His Aunt Polly, who taught one of the classes of older boys and girls, used to drive by and pick him up. As they drove back and forth to Sunday School she told him of the great builders in the Bible and especially of Nehemiah's return to rebuild the wall at Jerusalem. Chuck used to like to think of himself as one of the helpers who "had a mind to work" (Neh. 4:6).

One story of modern times which his aunt told him always interested him. It was that of the building of a famous bridge, eight miles in length, which stood high above the shimmering waters of a bay. The bridge had gone up very slowly because the foundation had to be set more than two hundred feet beneath the water so that the spans that were anchored to the piers would hold.

The important part of the bridge, his aunt had said, was under the water, the part which is never seen. And she told Chuck that it always reminded her of the sentence in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 201), "We cannot build safely on false foundations."

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