Article October 8, 1927 Issue

Sunday School

HOPE LE BAR ROBERTS

Many sincere students, in loving gratitude for all that Christian Science has brought to them, are eager and willing to serve in some one of the many departments which our beloved Cause provides. They realize that on the orderly unfoldment of the activities of the Cause depends the future usefulness of Christian Science to mankind. Had not the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, hedged this Cause about with wisdom divinely inspired, many of us to-day who have felt the proofs of its beneficence would still be in darkness. When our gratitude becomes greater than our love of idleness or ease, channels of service are opened to us. The privilege of teaching in the Christian Science Sunday School is fraught with great blessing. It is true we cannot get without giving; and it is equally true we cannot give without getting.

Close contact with the child-thought brings to light what Christ Jesus meant when he urged men to become as little children. In the study of these Biblical passages it is wonderfully helpful to use the two Concordances, one to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and one to the other writings of Mrs. Eddy, to find out what our Leader says about children and youth. Many valuable lessons may be thus learned by the teacher.

One who had been accustomed to teaching in Sunday school in another Christian denomination, and had depended largely on so-called lesson helps, on approaching work in the Christian Science Sunday School had at first a feeling of loss. By going directly to the Manual of The Mother Church and studying pages 62, 63, and 127, she found, however, that here was adequate instruction for teaching, if followed with loving obedience.

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