Article August 14, 1954 Issue

LEE FINDS ANOTHER FRIEND

[Of Special Interest to Children]

BETTIE B. MARRS

Lee had just finished the fourth grade and was enjoying her five weeks of summer school very much. She loved the new square dances that they were learning and what they were studying about Washington, D. C. The children had elected a president and had chosen a cabinet.

All was going well—all, that is, with one exception: Lee felt that one girl was her enemy. Each day when her mother called for her at school, Lee told her about the day's activities and usually made some mention of what the enemy, Bobbie Jane, had done to be annoying. At first her mother said nothing, feeling that it would be forgotten. One day, however, Lee was almost in tears as she announced, "Bobbie Jane took my potato chips and smashed them with her feet!" Lee felt she was almost angry with her.

Since Lee and her mother were Christian Scientists, and Lee attended the Christian Science Sunday School regularly, they both knew how wrong it is to be angry with anyone. They knew that such thinking was not remembering the truth that God is Love and man is His reflection. Together they decided that here was an opportunity to put into practice the many truths they had both been reading each week in the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly.

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