Article June 15, 1957 Issue

JERRY PROVES THE TRUTH

[Of Special Interest to Children]

ILA RAMAGE

A Little boy, whose name is Jerry, goes to the Christian Science Sunday School. There he learns how God can help him to be well and happy and how He will help him to do what is right.

In the first grade at day school Jerry liked to do arithmetic problems and usually made a hundred on his papers. When he reached the second grade the teacher asked the class to draw little dogs or kittens to illustrate their arithmetic lessons. Two dogs plus three dogs equal five dogs. Some of the children drew funny-looking animals and didn't really care how their papers looked. But Jerry wanted his to be nice and neat. He tried and tried, but couldn't draw dogs to look the way they should. He kept erasing what he drew, until his paper was so smudged and dirty that he couldn't turn it in.

The next day the same thing happened, and again the next day. Then Jerry became unhappy because he was so far behind in his work. He listened to error until he believed he really couldn't do the lessons at all. He didn't remember to ask God to help him. The teacher told him he must make up all the lessons he had failed to turn in or he would get a poor mark.

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