Article August 29, 1931 Issue

Sunday School Work

HARRY EDWARD DE LASAUX, Jr.

The Christian Science Sunday School is a busy place. It demonstrates our Leader's admonition in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 252), "Keep yourselves busy with divine Love." Keeping "busy with divine Love" is being conscious of that bliss and harmony before which the troubles of mankind melt away and disappear. The Sunday school teacher and worker may rest assured that so long as he loves the Sunday school, its workers, pupils, and activities, his own joy and ability to reflect the truth of being will be continually increased.

Little children were attracted to Christ Jesus because of his Godlikeness. With their spontaneity and simplicity of thought, they came to him. And Christ Jesus, understanding their unbiased receptivity better than did his disciples, who apparently felt that the children might annoy the Master, brought out a fact which undoubtedly justifies the Sunday school as an institutional activity of the Christian church. He said, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." In this connection a statement by Mrs. Eddy (ibid., p. 252) is significant: "The entire purpose of true education is to make one not only know the truth but live it—to make one enjoy doing right, make one not work in the sunshine and run away in the storm, but work midst clouds of wrong, injustice, envy, hate." In this passage the Sunday school teacher and worker may see his purpose and his demonstration. His own problems cannot keep him from Sunday school work: if one loves the Sunday school, the way will open for him to serve in it.

Sunday school work is simple. There is nothing complicated in it. Indeed, the Manual of The Mother Church specifically states that "the Sabbath School children shall be taught the Scriptures, and they shall be instructed according to their understanding or ability to grasp the simpler meanings of the divine Principle that they are taught" (Church Manual, Art. XX, Sect. 2). Many of the children and young people attending the Christian Science Sunday School are newcomers to Christian Science; in fact, many parents who are not Christian Scientists send their children to our Sunday school, and many young people come of their own volition simply because they have been attracted to it in a natural way.

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