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Listen to the story of a simple shepherd, given in his...

From the July 1901 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Listen to the story of a simple shepherd, given in his own words:—

"I forget now who it was that once said to me, 'Jean Baptiste, you are very poor?'—True.—'If you fell ill, your wife and children would be destitute?'—True.—And then I felt anxious and uneasy for the rest of the day.

"At evening, wiser thoughts came to me, and I said to myself, 'Jean Baptiste, for more than thirty years you have lived in the world, you have never possessed anything, yet still you live on, and have been provided each day with nourishment, each night with repose. Of trouble God has never sent you more than your share. Of help, the means have never failed you. To whom do you owe all this? To God. Jean Baptiste, be no longer ungrateful, and banish those anxious thoughts; for what could ever induce you to think that the Hand from which you have already received so much, would close against you when you grow old, and have greater need for help?' I finished my prayer, and felt at peace."—From the French.

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