Klaus was very happy. He was going to Grandmother's in the city. There would be many exciting shops to explore, especially the big toy store where he had seen the electric train.

Klaus himself lived in an out-of-the-way little village in Germany with his mother, father, and older brother, Georg. He and Georg couldn't attend a Christian Science Sunday School, because there wasn't one near enough.

To make up for it, Mother often told them Bible stories in the evening and read to them from the Bible or from the Christian Science textbook. Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, or sometimes an article written for children from the German edition of The Herald of Christian Science. In this way they learned to apply the truths of Christian Science in their own experience. And if they weren't always able to solve a problem alone, they went to their parents and asked them for help.

Now, in the city, they were alone with their grandmother and an aunt, neither of whom was a Christian Scientist. On the second day Georg became very ill and lay in bed, not caring about anything.

When Klaus heard his grandmother say to his aunt, "It would be best if I called a doctor," he cried out in amazement, "You only have to ask God! He always helps."

Grandmother didn't seem to understand. "I'm sorry. I can't do that," she honestly replied.

"Then I'll have to!" he said.

He went into the next room, sat on a chair, and began to pray aloud the prayer Christ Jesus gave us—the Lord's Prayer. He couldn't say it all by heart, but only got as far as "Thy kingdom come."  ^{Matt. 6:10;}

Suddenly a sentence of Mrs. Eddy's, which his parents had often read to him after he'd prayed this part of the Lord's Prayer, came to him: "Thy kingdom is come: Thou art ever-present." ^{Science and Health, p. 16;} Until then this sentence hadn't meant, much of anything to him. Now it seemed as comforting as an angel thought that God Himself had sent him.

"If God is ever present," he thought, "He's with Georg now, too."

He remembered how his mother had once given him a loving hug and asked him, "Do you feel how much I love you? Well, God's love is still greater. We're all His children and are always in His loving arms. He gives His children everything they need, and everything He gives is good because He Himself is good." How quieting it was now for Klaus to know all that good was true of his brother!

He jumped from the chair and ran back into the other room. Grandmother put her finger on her lips and pointed to Georg, who was sleeping. She and Klaus tiptoed out.

At bedtime she said seriously. "I believe God heard your prayer. Georg quickly became quiet and went to sleep."

Georg slept the whole night. The next morning he was completely well, and he and Klaus spent four adventurous days in the big city.

When Mother came to get them, Grandmother told her about Georg's wonderful healing. Then Mother said to the boys, "You've learned an important lesson. Now you know that God is always near you, everywhere, and helps you if you turn to Him, even if you can't reach a Christian Science practitioner."

Then she added, "Klaus, you've done something God demands of all of us, as Mrs. Eddy has written: 'It is possible,—yea, it is the duty and privilege of every child, man, and woman,—to follow in some degree the example of the Master by the demonstration of Truth and Life of health and holiness.'" ^{p. 37 .}

Klaus looked up at Georg and smiled.