Article February 8, 1958 Issue

JOHNNY AND THE GIANTS

[Of Special Interest to Children]

MARIE PHELPS WATSON

Johnny walked home from school every day through a big wood. He liked the trees and sometimes he pretended they were giants. Then he would run from them as though he were afraid they might catch him and hurt him. Sometimes he would just swing along, stopping occasionally to pick flowers and to listen to the birds or the gentle breeze rustling the leaves.

One day his teacher noticed that he seemed to be quite ill; so she asked him to lie down in the school lounge while she called his mother. Johnny had been taught in the Christian Science Sunday School how Christ Jesus healed through prayer. Because of this, Johnny's mother knew that he could not really accept any false beliefs about himself. So she asked the teacher to send him home, and then she walked through the woods to meet him.

Mother saw him coming slowly along the path, and just before he reached her, he fell to the ground and was unable to get up. She knelt down beside him and spoke to him of God as Love. She declared the truth concerning every boy and girl, which is found in Mary Baker Eddy's definition of "children" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 582): "The spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love." She reminded him that his make-believe giants were all around him.

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