Article August 26, 1916 Issue

Sunday School Teaching

WILLIAM R. BEST

BOTH city and state make the child their first care, and for this reason money is freely spent so that the child may obtain a solid foundation upon which the future man or woman may stand. Much serious thought and consideration are given to this subject by cultured people, because it is recognized that without the proper foundation good citizens cannot be developed. Although perfection has not yet been realized along these lines, still behind all this effort and experiment lies a motive which is good, and which is resulting in the unfoldment of good individually and collectively.

Recognizing the same need, the churches attempt to instruct their children about God. Thus it is that the Christian Science church, through its Sunday school, is striving to give to its children the right foundation, for upon the child depends, among other things, the sustaining and upbuilding of the cause of Christian Science in the future. The question, therefore, which comes to every earnest Christian Scientist, and especially to every one who has accepted the sacred office of Sunday school teacher, is this: Are the children being shown the true foundation? By this foundation is meant the fundamental truth upon which the whole of the Christ-teaching is built.

No two teachers of mathematics pursue the same course in imparting their knowledge, yet the foundation is the same. Students of the many are able to answer the question of the one, thus proving that although the method of instruction may be along individual lines, the foundation remains the same. For instance, one could think of many different ways of proving to children the fact that three times three equals nine; yet the majority of them, although instructed from different viewpoints, when asked the result of three times three would give the correct answer.

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