Article February 17, 1968 Issue

Elsa Finds God

[For children]

ANN SEATON BOSQUEZ

Elsa had always attended a Sunday School somewhere. But now, after her mother had been ill for a long time and had been healed through Christian Science, Elsa was going to the Christian Science Sunday School. She wasn't very happy about it either.

The new explanations of God were so different from anything she had ever heard before that her thoughts seemed quite jumbled. She had always thought God was a towering man with a long white beard sitting on a big throne somewhere up in the sky. She liked that description. She had never thought about why she liked it. But she never had any doubts about it. Now, in her class, they were learning quite a different definition of God from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy: "God. The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence."^{Science and Health, p. 587;}

One Sunday Elsa returned from Sunday School feeling glum. "What's the trouble?" her mother asked.

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