Article January 17, 1948 Issue

ZERO IS ALWAYS NOTHING

[Of Special Interest to Children]

MARGARET SEIRING RATZ

Judy was a little girl in the third grade at school. Schoolwork was usually a pleasure for Judy, because ever since starting school she had also been a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School. There she had learned wonderful things about God and her own closeness to Him. Best of all, to Judy, was knowing that God's child could never fail at anything. Whenever a problem seemed hard to her, she always stopped to remember that God, Mind, does all the work and she had only to reflect Him. Then she would feel very happy and soon have it completed so she could go on to her next task.

But one week Judy forgot. By Friday morning she felt very much troubled indeed. School hadn't been a very pleasant place for her all week, until at last she didn't even feel like going. She looked so unhappy that Mother noticed it and asked her the trouble.

"Oh, nothing," Judy pretended. "I just don't feel like going to school; that's all,"

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