Article October 12, 1957 Issue

LOVE MEETS OUR NEEDS

[Of Special Interest to Children]

JEANNE STEELY LAITNER

Janie had a beautiful, new, blue and white bicycle. When her father brought it home, she could scarcely wait to learn to ride it. With someone running along beside her helping her to keep her balance, Janie practiced and practiced on the new bicycle. But, although she tried as hard as she possibly could, Janie did not quite learn to ride all by herself.

Now Janie had been a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School ever since she was a baby. There she had learned about turning to God for any kind of help she might need. So when she came into the house almost in tears over the trouble she was having in learning to ride the new bicycle, her mother reminded her that God loved her and that she could turn to Him for help at all times. Then her mother recommended to Janie that she sit quietly for a while and think of God and of herself as His perfect child.

Janie obediently sat down on the back steps, and everything was very still while she turned in prayer to her Father-Mother God. In Sunday School, Janie's class had talked a great deal about the fourth beatitude, which is (Matt. 5:6), "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."

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