Article June 6, 1953 Issue

PATTY FINDS HER PLACE

[Of Special Interest to Children]

EVELYN GARBETT RUSS

Patty was a shy, fearful little girl when she first entered the fifth grade at school. She had moved three times since she had started in school, and making new friends was a big problem to her. Although she often watched the girls and boys happily playing games, more and more she seemed to stay by herself. Sometimes they planned parties and hiking trips and included Patty, but she was so shy that, much as she wanted to join the others in their fun, she always refused.

In Patty's room was a little Christian Scientist named Nancy. One day at lunch Nancy said to her mother: "Mother, I've been thinking what my Sunday School teacher said last Sunday when we talked about the good Samaritan. She said that to be a good neighbor we should express good to everyone, wherever we are. She said that the whole class should go out and put into practice the sentence we had been studying, 'And Love is reflected in love' (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 17)."

Nancy's mother quickly agreed that as Christian Scientists we must express love wherever we are—at home, at play, or at school.

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