Article August 1, 1914 Issue

Sunday School Work

MELISSA F. PIERCE

After carefully reading and rereading many times some of the very helpful articles in our periodicals relating to Sunday school work, I feel impelled to express my gratitude for these and numerous other excellent articles on the commandments which have appeared from time to time. How little we realize the depth and scope of the commandments until we teach their meaning in our Sunday schools! Then the truths they embody begin gradually to unfold.

In the fourth commandment we learn that the Sabbath day means vastly more than merely one day in the week. We see that we can keep the Sabbath only as its larger significance is unfolded to us, no matter what the name of the day may be. On page 584 of Science and Health we find a very different meaning for the word "day" from what we have always been taught outside of Christian Science. There we read that "Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God's day." The intimate relation which really exists between all the commandments is also unfolded in Christian Science.

In working out for my Sunday school class a lesson on the sixth commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," my thought was directed to the story of Daniel in the lions' den, and on reading it again carefully, I laid the Bible down with a prayer of gratitude, for I had found many lessons therein for my class.

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