Article November 21, 1977 Issue

In the French Alps

Daisy M. Smith

Dee was going to camp for a month, and it would be a very new experience. Not only was she to be away from her family, but she would be traveling in France—a country foreign to her. The only other American in the group was fluent in French and had been told not to speak in English to Dee so that she could get good practice in French.

Dee was the only Christian Scientist in the camp of Éclaireuses, which is the name for the Protestant Girl Scouts of France. Dee was one of twenty girls, ages eight to twenty years. They all were to live for one month in tents in a small hayfield in the low Alps in France.

When Dee arrived at camp, she made many new friends, and they had good times together. She knew some French and had plans to study the weekly Christian Science Lesson-Sermon in that language. Her parents had left with her a French Bible and an English/French edition of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy and a Christian Science Quarterly. But Dee soon discovered that biblical French was too difficult for her. So she decided to just read Science and Health through by chapters.

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