Article June 23, 1962 Issue

"I am not hurt, and I know the reason why"

[Of Special Interest to Children]

CLIFF WALTER KRUEGER

Bill was a good helper around home. He knew that each member of a family must do his part to keep the house and gardens in order. He enjoyed helping his father, and one spring day he climbed a ladder to the storage space above the garage to help get out the window screens. While working up there, he made a misstep and fell from the storage space to the concrete floor below.

Bill's mother and father were Christian Scientists, just as he was, and when they saw what had happened they began to declare the truth aloud because Bill had lost consciousness. The previous week Bill and his mother had been discussing the ninety-first Psalm. Now Mother repeated part of this to Bill: "There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways."

Then Bill, hearing his parents, replied with a statement of truth that he and Mother had previously worked with, "I am not hurt, and I know the reason why." This was to obey a rule given on page 397 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, "Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine metaphysics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be."

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