Article October 28, 1939 Issue

Teaching the Children Christian Science

ROBERT A. CURRY

The Christian Science Sunday School owes its inception and its form of government to Mary Baker Eddy (Church Manual, Article XX). The Sunday school began on October 25, 1885 (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 54, 55), and it will continue as long as there are children eligible to come within its provisions.

For more than half a century the Sunday school has been a flourishing activity of The Mother Church, in Boston, Massachusetts, and of its branches in various parts of the world. This is natural, for the teachings of Christian Science follow those of Christ Jesus, who gathered little children in his arms and blessed them. In several recorded instances he healed children, and to do this he must have loved them. There can be no healing without love. It is this combination of love and healing which draws the children to the Sunday school. Oftentimes they come of their own accord, and sometimes from homes where hitherto scarcely any interest in Christian Science has been shown.

The steps which led to the formation of the Christian Science Sunday School were both simple and constructive. The rules for its conduct are included among the By-Laws of the Church Manual, of which Mrs. Eddy writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 148), in part, "They sprang from necessity, the logic of events,—from the immediate demand for them as a help that must be supplied to maintain the dignity and defense of our Cause."

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