Article March 10, 1928 Issue

Why We Come to Sunday School

MABEL JONES

A function of the Christian Science Sunday School is to help the children to understand true substance. To the fulfillment of this end, we should come to the little flock each Sunday clad in new garments of holy inspiration. Clothed thus in our very best, we may give the very best that we possess, and so disseminate that which will heal and help others to heal.

Our Master said: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world." Through prayer we enter the "upper room," where we receive this bread from heaven with which we feed the children. We lift consciousness, and receive abundantly of the bread which is the Christ, Truth. Then we realize God's presence, and are ready to teach His Word. The desire always to have fresh inspiration to give, accompanied by the operation of right spiritual activity, clothes us in joy, peace, love, praise, goodness, and kindness—garments of inspiration, indispensable essentials for a true giver.

To be a good giver there is one great essential, and that is to know God. Only a demonstrable knowledge of God will enable us to impart the truth intelligently. Let us be earnest, therefore, in our endeavor to find out what God is. Let us hold steadfastly only to that which is good, and thus shut out all that is unlike Him. God is infinite, God is All; hence, good is unlimited. If our consciousness be filled with the sense of unlimited goodness, we cannot help expressing goodness, purity, intelligence, happiness, and an abundance of right ideas. This is our divine inheritance. It is the result of spiritual understanding, of a pure consciousness, of confidence that man is spiritual now, and that good is the only power. It is the realization that "the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Its goodness, kindness, peacefulness, and glory are here now; for the Father says to His children, in the words of the parable, "All that I have is thine." And so, the kingdom of heaven is ours, that heaven which is being ruled perpetually by infinite divine Principle.

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