Article September 26, 1936 Issue

Education in the Sunday School

ROBERT A. CURRY

Teachers in Christian Science Sunday Schools may feel at times overwhelmed by a sense of the magnitude of the work and their apparently slight ability to cope with it. On such occasions it is helpful to recall the Master's humble admission, "I can of mine own self do nothing."

This field of labor is primarily that of spiritual education, assuaging the human thirst with what Mrs. Eddy terms "the milk of the Word" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 15). The word "education" is formed from a Latin stem meaning a "leading out." This is indicative of the mortal's need. But in the kingdom of heaven there is no "leading out" from a dream of life in matter. Man as God's relection is not emerging from anything. He does not begin with a slight knowledge of God's laws and advance himself through study and practice. He reflects infinite divine intelligence, to which no fresh discovery is possible. Man manifests the continuous unfoldment of all good.

True education, therefore, moves forward with the acceptance in human consciousness of the spiritual facts about man. This acceptance is going on all the time, and the great agency in the universal enlightenment is the Christ. It is the Christ, revealed in Christian Science, which is accurately teaching this age, with the result that as ignorance about God is lessening, so are sickness and sin diminishing. Inspiration and freedom are increased in the Sunday school classes, where the recognition is encouraged that it is the impersonal Christ that is instructing all.

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