THE WONDERFUL TRUTH

[Of Special Interest to Children]

ETHEL AGARD CHEESEMAN

One summer morning Paul and Marcia hustled about the house preparing to take little brother Jon and little cousin Julie for an outing. Finally they were ready to go. Mother cautioned: "Remember that you are in charge of two small children. Take good care of them." Then off they went. After reaching the corner, they started down the next street. The younger children soon became playful. Julie threw her rag doll onto the ground, and Jon threw his cuddly bear.

While all four children were laughing and playing, the strap on Julie's stroller became loose. She fell out and burst into tears. When Paul and Marcia picked her up, they noticed that her chin was cut and bleeding. All this commotion disturbed Jon, and he began to cry too.

Paul and Marcia started to rush toward home, greatly troubled. Suddenly Paul said: "Stop! This is silly!"

Paul and Marcia had attended the Christian Science Sunday School ever since they could remember. There they had learned the wonderful truth that God is Love, that He is good. They knew that God is everywhere, filling all space, and that He cares for His children at all times, tenderly, lovingly.

In their home Paul and Marcia had known only Christian Science care. They had learned to be obedient to God's law of good. They knew that wrong thinking must be overcome with right thinking.

Whenever anyone in the family was sick, hurt, or cross, they remembered that Mother and Father turned to God in prayer. Always there was healing. Was it any wonder that these children remembered what to do when Julie was hurt and they were frightened?

Paul said: "We know the truth that God gives only good to His children, and we are really His children. Let's say the Lord's Prayer."

Paul and Marcia stood quietly and repeated together this prayer which was given to us by Christ Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 6:9-13).

The children said this prayer with such loving understanding of God's power to heal that Julie and Jon stopped crying, and Julie's chin stopped bleeding.

Again they headed for home, singing softly the first verse of the hymn "'Feed My Sheep'" by Mary Baker Eddy (Poems, p. 14),

"Shepherd, show me how to go
O'er the hillside steep,
How to gather, how to sow,—
How to feed Thy sheep;
I will listen for Thy voice,
Lest my footsteps stray;
I will follow and rejoice
All the rugged way."

When Mother came out to see why they had returned so soon, Paul and Marcia explained what had happened. Mother, after cleaning Julie's chin and putting a fresh dress on her, smiled at the older children and said: "I am grateful that you lifted your thinking above fear and that you turned to God for help. Never forget Mrs. Eddy's beautiful words, 'Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need' " (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs. Eddy, p. 494).

How truly thankful Paul and Marcia were that they had felt God's healing touch! The power of God's Word had melted fear and had healed a little girl's chin.

The Bible says (II Tim. 1:7), "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." Paul and Marcia indeed rejoiced that they had proved for themselves this wonderful truth about which the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy.

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