Article April 12, 1958 Issue

JEAN PASSES A TEST

[Of Special Interest to Children]

CHALLICE RANDOLPH WAHL

The school which Jean attends has a 4-H Bicycle Club. Jean joined the club in September, and in the months that followed she was taught by policemen, who came regularly to the school and showed her how to check her bicycle to see if it was properly equipped. She learned about brakes, lights for night riding, reflectors, and so on. The club learned too how to ride carefully and had fun learning hand signals to tell automobile drivers whether the bicycle rider was going to turn, slow down, or stop.

Jean worked faithfully all year, doing whatever was required of her in this course. So her mother was surprised one afternoon in late spring to hear Jean say: "Oh, Mother, the bicycle test is tomorrow. It is going to be very difficult, and I'll have to ride a strange bike that is too big for me! Lots of the girls are going to take notes to be excused from the test. Please, Mother, write an excuse for me!"

"Why, Jean," her mother replied, "that sounds as though error were frightening you and the other children too. It would keep you from proving what you have learned of the Christ, Truth—that God is All and that man receives all good from Him. The policemen have worked very hard with your group. Does it seem fair to deprive them of seeing how well your group has done?"

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