Article May 3, 1975 Issue

A Lesson from Swimming

MARY ETHEL STUART

One Sunday morning a lively ten-year-old boy entered his Sunday School class with this statement, which he meant to be a bombshell: "I don't see why I can't walk on water if Jesus did!" Before the teacher could reply, a very quiet, calm answer came from another boy in the class, "Don't worry. Just be glad you can swim."

Doesn't every Christian Scientist at times wish he could make some outstanding demonstration of divine power—one that seems right and important to him in his own situation? Perhaps he even thinks it would mean much to the Cause of Christian Science. What he really needs, no doubt, is humble gratitude for the allness of God and to know that he can let divine power support his efforts in taking the necessary human footsteps as he grows in spiritual understanding.

In the desire to learn more about Christian Science does a student sometimes become so involved in the intellectual pursuit of metaphysical ideas that he begins to lose sight of the joy of demonstrating God's control each step of the way? In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy gives this simple rule for progress: "Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more." Science and Health, p. 3;

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