Article June 12, 1965 Issue

A Lesson from a Little Chair

CECILY M. HEATON

A short time ago I was reseating a cane chair. As I had done a good many in my day, I did not anticipate any difficulty. So I went gaily along, probably thinking of something else, when I discovered the pattern was not working out correctly. I looked back over what I had done, but could not see any fault, so I deliberately made a wrong stitch, hoping the pattern would right itself on the return row. But it did not do so. So I had to make another error to cover up the two previous ones. But it was no use. The third row plainly showed the pattern was quite out of gear.

I sat back thought, "What a lesson!" Everyone knows that accounts never come right if a mistake made in them is not found and corrected, and now I saw that the rules in caning a chair must also be strictly observed.

And in Christian Science one knows that God's laws of love and goodness are not less accurate and demanding than the rules of mathematics and the caning of a chair. How many times in my day had I done something not quite right, not quite fair or kind, and thought to myself. "I am sorry I did that. I won't do it again," but had made no special effort not to do so and consequently had failed again and again until the result of those faults began to show in my facial expression, my affairs, happiness, health, and so on.

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