"A little child shall lead them" (Isa. 11:6). My young daughter led me into Christian Science. A pediatrician had told me that the little girl, who was very fearful of strangers, had a mother complex. I could not place her in a day nursery, as was suggested, but I enrolled her in the Sunday School of an orthodox church. She refused to stay unless I was with her, however, so I stopped taking her.
Some months later my sister asked me to try the Christian Science Sunday School. She said that parents were not allowed to remain with the children, but that if I could get my daughter to go once, she believed the child would lose her fear and readily go again. I had my doubts, but I persuaded my daughter to go to the Sunday School and promised that I would wait outside for her and take her home if she did not like it.
I was filled with wonder during that hour. There was no crying, and not only did the child remain for the full session but she was willing and eager to attend from that time on. This experience led to her freedom from the mother complex and timidity. A few months later my little boy was attending Sunday School also.
