I would like to give a little illustration of how naturally the unbiased child-thought accepts and assimilates Truth, while we older ones are struggling with our doubts and fears. Our little girl, two years and four months old while playing the other day, struck her eye against something. She put her hand to her eye, and it seemed as though she could not open it. I said, as I usually do in such cases, "Oh, it is all right." "No, 'tisn't," she replied, and sitting down placed her other hand' over her eyes, as she has seen us do when treating. After a few moments' silence she removed her hand, and with both eyes open and aglow, said, "Now it's all right," and there was an ugly little mark close to her eye as evidence that to mortal sense, she had met more than a fancy claim.
This was her first spontaneous attempt to demonstrate for herself. Some time afterwards I asked her what she said when she treated, and she replied, "God." I thought to myself, in the vanity of my superior knowledge, that that was very good for a beginning, and she would soon know the rest. But the divine rebuke was swift. What "rest" was there to know? Had she not touched, in that one word, the centre, and included the circumference, of the whole question? If we could but realize the utter and undoubting reliance upon God as the All and Only, with the simplicity of this little child, where would be the need for our elaborate denials? Human wisdom was rebuked; we know too much. The child who knows nothing but God, Good, knows more than we of larger growth, and is our senior in Christian Science.
Victoria, B. C.
