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Show A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHILD. Mark Twain In North American Review. "A little far-Western girl of , equipped with an adult vocabulary, states her age and says. 'I thought I would write a demonstration to you.' She had a claim, derived from getting flung over a pony's head and landed on a rockptye. She saved herself from disaster dis-aster by remembering to say, 'God is All' while she was in the air. I couldn't have done It. I shouldn't even have thought of it. I should have been too excited. Nothing but Christian Science Sci-ence could have enabled that child to do that calm and thoughtful and Judicious Ju-dicious thing in those circumstances. She came down on her head, and, by all the rules, she should have brogen it; but the intervention of the formula prevented that, so the only claim resulting re-sulting was a black eye. Monday morning morn-ing it was still swollen and shut. At school it hurt pretty badly that is, it seemed to. So I was excused and went down in the basement and said, 'Now I am depending on mamma instead of God, and I will depend on God instead of mamma.' No doubt this would have answered; but to make sure, she added Mrs. Eddy and recited 'the Scientific Statement of Being,' which is one of the principal incantations, I Judge. Then 'I felt my opening.' . Why, it would have opened an oyster. I think It Is one of the touchlngest things in child-history, that pious little rat down cellar pumping away at the Sclenting Statement of Being." |