Article July 4, 1994 Issue

Go frontward!

Bernice Holly Higgins

Years ago, I was a teacher for four-and five-year-olds in the Christian Science Sunday School, and we were studying the story of Moses taking the children of Israel out of Egypt (see Ex. 14:5–22). This particular Sunday one boy was telling the story to the others, and he said, "They got up to the Red Sea, and there were no boats or bridges to cross, so how were they going to get away from Pharaoh?"

"Well," he said, "they all had to go frontward! And they did. And they all crossed over and they didn't even get their feet wet!"

This precious, childlike explanation came to my thought at a time when I had been experiencing severe pain for several days. It was Saturday morning, and I knew I needed to be in Sunday School the next day for my teenage class. I thought of the Red Sea, for this problem seemed to be as large as that to me. So I must "go frontward," I realized. But how?

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