Article February 8, 1999 Issue

for kids

Jamie and the plastic petunia

Edward Hobart Tonkin

MY friend Jamie went to a boarding school for Christian Scientists. One morning he woke up with a bad cold.

He began to recite mentally "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 468): "'There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.'" In Sunday School he had learned that matter could not catch cold, because matter was incapable of thinking of itself as either sick or well. He was a perfect child of God and not subject to the so-called laws governing matter.

Carefully Jamie recited the statement from Science and Health all the way through. The cold was still there. He began again.

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