Article May 4, 1963 Issue

"I'm not a bit afraid anymore"

[Of Special Interest to Children]

RUTH RENO SMITH

Lessie was a very timid girl, afraid of so many things: of the dark, storms, loud voices, strange people, even of the great dog that lived next door and ran out to bark at her.

One day word came that her Aunt Luella, whom she had never seen, was coming to visit. Aunt Luella had a pleasant low voice and a happy smile; and as she went about the house helping Lessie's mother, she had a comfortable way of humming softly to herself or of sitting down at the piano and singing happy songs, which she said were from the Christian Science Hymnal.

Lessie liked these songs very much, and she began to wish that she could sing. All her life she had been so busy fearing things that she had never before thought of singing. One song especially pleased her. It was about a shepherd. Lessie knew a little about sheep; so she called it the "shepherd song."

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