Article September 8, 1980 Issue

The wolf's head and the grape leaf

ROY K. BOTTORFF

When quite a small lad, I was playing with my toys on the living room floor and got up and went to the kitchen to get a drink. As I passed through the kitchen door, I just about froze with fear. There, outside the window, I saw an animal peering in. I turned and ran to Mother, shouting that a wolf was looking in the kitchen window.

She picked up a kerosene lamp, and we returned to the kitchen —only to find that the wolf's head was a huge grape leaf hanging from a vine.

Many years later I found Christian Science. And one day while reading its textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, I came across a statement on page 421 that really was a stumper: "There is no disease." While pondering it, I recalled the incident just related.