RETURNING from a long motor trip one night in our car, we suddenly came into dense fog on a heavily traveled turnpike. After we had crept along slowly for some minutes, unable to see a thing in front, in back, or on either side, a child in the car said, "Now is the time to trust God." This simple statement of truth brought a sharp rebuke to the sense of fear we were entertaining, and a wonderfully clear realization of God's presence and power was felt. Although the fog did not lift for over an hour, we came through unharmed. Many times since, I have thought of that dear little one's trust and of how natural it had been for him to turn to God, good, when the way seemed obscure and uncertain.

Christ Jesus loved the childlike thought, its innocence, its freedom from pride, arrogance, and guile. In reply to his disciples' inquiry (Matt. 18:1), "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" Jesus called a little child to his side and said (verse 4), "Whosoever... shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

Mary Baker Eddy was chosen of God to bring forth the final revelation of Truth, Christian Science. She says of humility (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 356): "It is the genius of Christian Science. One can never go up, until one has gone down in his own esteem." To set aside the belief in a selfhood, mind, or will separate from God, good, should be our lifework. As we continue this work each day, we exercise the quality of humility, for to be humble means to pray, that is, to desire that "thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10), as our blessed Lord's Prayer teaches us.

At one time a mother who was a student of Christian Science was confronted with a problem that did not yield readily. One of the children had been suffering from a cold and cough. The cold had been quickly healed through the mother's application of her understanding of Christian Science. However, the cough seemed to hang on. Some time went by, and still there was no improvement. Finally one day, in pondering the problem, the mother picked up "Miscellaneous Writings" and opened to these words (p. 355): "Learn what in thine own mentality is unlike 'the anointed,' and cast it out."

The mother felt that here was the rule which she needed to follow in order to witness the complete healing of her child. She remembered too Mrs. Eddy's words in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 412), "If the case is that of a young child or an infant, it needs to be met mainly through the parent's thought, silently or audibly on the aforesaid basis of Christian Science."

She decided that the searchlight of honest self-examination must be turned on her own thought to see what was "unlike 'the anointed,' " that is, unlike the pure Christ-consciousness, which is the Godbestowed heritage of each of God's children. Immediately the answer came in a word—pride. It was pride that was clouding her thought, pride because she was having a problem that seemed to be taking time to work out, although she was a Christian Scientist. Had she not been troubled by what others around her might be thinking? Had there not been a fear of criticism? Might not here indeed be the sense of irritation that needed healing?

With a joyful, grateful heart and with the assurance that the error had been uncovered, she began to correct her thinking. Humbly she saw her need to repent of the sin of believing that she of herself could do anything. She acknowledged God, the one good, the only Mind, as the creator of all, and she declared that as the image and likeness of God, she reflected the one good Mind She affirmed the su premacy and all-power of the one Mind and denied the lie which would claim that she could have another mind separate from God, whom she reflected. Since such qualities as pride, vainglory, impatience, and irritation certainly did not exist in the Mind which is God, then they did not in reality exist at all and could not possibly produce any effect whatsoever.

She resolved to stand firm in the truth, no matter what mortal mind claimed. Finally, she mentally placed the child, herself, and all in the care of God, Spirit. All individuals in reality dwell in His care, and she knew that He was responsible for what He had created. God, divine Love, alone is cause, and the manifestation of this cause is loving, harmonious, and sinless.

Peacefully the mother turned to her daily tasks, and the problem vanished from her thought. It was not until two or three days later that she realized that the child had stopped coughing and was expressing harmony in every way.

We must never stop trusting God. Cultivating reliance on Him, we find ourselves more naturally dependent on Him for daily guidance, more naturally turning to Him to solve all the problems in human affairs. Let us resolve to keep our humility renewed day by day so that when our way seems obscure and uncertain, we shall say as did the little one in the fog, "Now is the time to trust God."

As we come into a greater understanding of God's power to solve all problems, our purpose for existing becomes clear, and we love to glorify Him. Let us enjoy the happiness and unlimited blessings which are ever at hand because their source, God, is ever at hand. Let us through humility be lifted up from the sod of believing in a life or power apart from Spirit into the forever unfoldment of heaven, which is not far off, but here and now. Let us, in the words of Hymn No. 359 in the Christian Science Hymnal,