Article March 5, 1927 Issue

Our Sunday Schools

WILLIAM LLOYD

The work our Sunday schools are doing for the regeneration of mankind cannot be overestimated. There are being laid, Sunday by Sunday, spiritual foundations in thought; and as the rebirth of mankind can be accomplished only by growth in understanding, there the final triumph over evil is now in process of fulfillment. This work is being done through the inspired interpretation of the Bible as found in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

As an instance of this teaching, let us take the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh verses of the first chapter of Genesis. Before our beloved Leader illuminated the Scriptures, how many of us understood what was meant by "image" and "likeness"? Now every student of her writings may clearly understand and profit by the added incentive to right living which such understanding brings.

The Psalmist tells us that God is everywhere, even in "the uttermost parts of the sea." Paul affirms that "in him [God] we live, and move, and have our being." Our Leader's inspired words are: "God is divine Life, and Life is no more confined to the forms which reflect it than substance is in its shadow." Later she says: "God is individual, incorporeal;" and, still further, she adds: "He fills all space, and it is impossible to conceive of such omnipresence and individuality except as infinite Spirit or Mind" (Science and Health, p. 331). It is therefore impossible that our so-called physical forms could be made in God's image and likeness. Hence, these words must mean that God's man—the real man—is made like Him in spiritual character or nature. As God is Love, His child must be loving; as God is Truth, His child must be honest and truthful; as God is Life, His child must be immortal. Thus man reflects each and every quality of God. The nearer we approach these Godlike qualities in our daily living, the more we take unto ourselves our inheritance as the sons and daughters of God.

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