Facing exams?

William Walton Saunders

As Bob walked home from high school through the Fens, he was hardly aware of the bracing New England weather, cloudless and frosty. He was worrying about upcoming exams. They were going to be much longer than the ones he was used to. Some would cover half a year's work; and others, the whole year.

Bob was a sophomore, and until now he had enjoyed high school. He'd been elected secretary of the French Club; he liked sports, especially volleyball; and homework—well, he kept his nose to the grindstone each evening. But lately he hadn't been concentrating very well. He kept thinking about his teachers' warning: everybody's entire future depended on these exams.

Bob was a pupil in the Christian Science Sunday School. Yet for some reason he wasn't using what he had learned of God to help him prepare for the exams. On the morning of the first test, Bob looked and felt awful. He didn't want any breakfast. He couldn't understand how his parents could be so cheerful. They told him calmly that he should go to school and take the exam, and that they would support him through prayer.

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