A Christian Science Minister for the Armed Services befriended a young aviator and his wife during World War II and constantly challenged their standard of thought and action with the injunction, "Always reach for the top drawer!" Instead of settling for mediocrity, they were thus inspired to measure every course of action with the question, "Is this a standard worthy of the child of God?
When my small niece was asked one day what she wished to be when she grew up, she tossed her little blond head and, to the amusement of her questioner, replied, "I just want to be myself.
Christian Scientists are not specially favored above any other people; but that their prayers are highly effective, even approaching very often what seem to be miraculous demonstrations of divine power, is being proved in their daily life, in sickness as well as in health.
