Article November 28, 1931 Issue

The Christian Science Sunday School

KIMMIS HARTLEY HENDRICK

It is to be assumed that any young man or young woman of high school or early college age, who has been faithful in attending a Christian Science Sunday School, has been interested in the work to which the hour each week in the Sunday school has been devoted. When the time comes, then, that the student must leave the Sunday school, in accordance with Mrs. Eddy's provision in Article XX, Section 1, of the Manual of The Mother Church, he may rightfully ask himself, Of what value has this experience been to me, and to what new activity may I look forward?

Not the least value of Christian Science Sunday School attendance is the opportunity it gives for profitable association. The inspiration of a teacher's example may be a powerful influence for good. Similarly, the inspiration that comes from observing alertness and earnestness in one's fellow pupils is uplifting. The privilege of such useful contacts is safeguarded by the section of the Manual referred to above, that "none except the officers, teachers, and pupils should attend the Sunday School exercises." Thus the student is given a short but pleasant period every week when the single theme of conversation, the sole object of contemplation, is Christian Science and its application to our human experience.

The Sunday school is valuable to the young student in another way: it serves as a protecting influence. In the years when social engagements are apt to become distractions, when secular school subjects demand much attention, the Sunday school points to "the spiritual demand, quelling the material," to which Mrs. Eddy refers on page 385 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." The Sunday school unfolds the plan whereby this spiritual demand may be met—the daily study of the Bible and Science and Health. It also unfolds to the student's thought the practical possibilities of applied Science, and leads him to a greater appreciation of what God does for all mankind.

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