Article September 5, 1953 Issue

Inviolate

[Extracts from reports from two branch church librarians of their own experiences]

Cardiff, Wales

Four young men of rather questionable appearance entered the Reading Room one day just as the worker who had preceded me was about to leave it in my hands. The young men went on into the study room together, and as they did so the other attendant offered to stay in the salesroom a little longer. As we were discussing this, a loud crash was heard in the study room, drawing both of us to the door. A table holder of books lay broken on the floor. The visitors picked up the books and stacked them neatly on the table, apologizing for the accident.

As we returned to the desk the worker who had completed her hours of service for the day again offered to stay. This offer was lovingly but firmly refused. She left with the recommendation that the door between the sales and study rooms be opened. This, too, was seen as unnecessary. A quiet conviction as to the ever-presence of an all-seeing Principle began to well up in my thought. The assurance of David, "Thou art with me" (Ps. 23:4), and the words from Hymn No. 10 in our Christian Science Hymnal, "Our King is ever near," brought confidence in my oneness with that divine Principle.

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