Article July 31, 1965 Issue

Happy, the Murre

[Of Special Interest to Children]

LOUISA M. DAVISON

One summer afternoon on the beach Betsy and Mark found a baby bird that looked much like a penguin. A game warden told them that it was a baby murre. He said that it probably would not live; but if it would eat at all, to give it fish or meat, and he kindly gave them an old cage for it. Mark named the baby murre Happy because he was happy to find it.

The children both began to say they hoped the baby bird would live. Then they quickly remembered that they attended the Christian Science Sunday School. They saw that this was an opportunity to prove what they had learned there. They understood that in reality Happy's life could not be limited by any mortal material law.

When questions came to them, such as what to give the bird to eat and drink, how warm or how cool to keep him, they thought of what Jesus said (Matt. 6:31): "Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?" They refused to listen to any false laws of mortal mind, knowing they were not God's laws. And Happy quickly responded to this love and care, relishing what Mark gave him.

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