Article June 20, 1925 Issue

"Foundational trusts"

MARY E. TRUITT

Mrs. Eddy said in a letter to the Superintendent and Teachers of The Mother Church Sunday School (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 230), "It is a joy to know that they who are faithful over foundational trusts, such as the Christian education of the dear children, will reap the reward of rightness, rise in the scale of being, and realize at last their Master's promise, 'And they shall be all taught of God.'"

The work of the Christian Science Sunday School is one of the many ways in which a Church of Christ, Scientist, "affords proof of its utility," to quote from Mrs. Eddy's definition of "Church" on page 583 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Christian Scientists who have accepted service in the Sunday school have perhaps done so only through a desire to serve; but they have found that to them has been accorded a beautiful and joyous experience. As they see the little ones, and the older too, come with bright and happy faces, often bringing some friend with them to share this wonderful privilege, the realization comes that it is an inspiration to be with the pure child-thought, which truly sees God, good. They find that to be worthy of this trust they must come in humility and faith, armed with a great love for God and man, and with that true gratitude for Christian Science which finds expression in giving freely of that which has been received.

Error is constantly arguing to keep workers out of the Sunday school by claiming either that they know too little to teach the children or that they know too much,—that is, that they are fitted for higher work. If one has been confronted with either phase of the argument, it were well to examine it and see whence it comes. No doubt it was listening to it or to similar arguments which caused the multitudes in Jesus' time to be "scattered abroad," failing to see the work to be done or unwilling to do it. The words spoken by Jesus at that time are true to-day: "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few." Our Master loved children and found time to pause in his great work of teaching, preaching, and healing to bless the little ones who were brought to him, and to admonish his disciples to "forbid them not" to come unto him. To forbid is to prohibit; and a lack of willing workers in the Sunday school does tend to prohibit the little ones from coming to the Christ, Truth.

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