Article November 16, 1940 Issue

Sunday School Notes and Comments

Abundant fruitage proves that the Christian Science Sunday Schools are doing their part toward the fulfillment of Mrs. Eddy's revelation. In the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 17) we read that "at a meeting of the Christian Scientist Association, April 12, 1879, on motion of Mrs. Eddy, it was voted,—To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing."

Several members of a class of lively young children came to Sunday school one morning, eager to tell the teacher and other members of the class about a moving picture, giving a vivid description of war, which they had seen the day before. The members of the class who had not seen the picture desired to hear the details. The teacher, who had planned a review of the Ten Commandments for that day's lesson, felt a momentary sense of dismay when she found the thoughts of the pupils so filled with images of war and bloodshed. Then she lifted her thought to God in prayer, that she might be shown how to turn the thoughts of those little ones away from warlike scenes to the contemplation of God as universal Love and of the brotherhood of man. The answer came, and when the time for the lesson arrived, the teacher asked the class what wrong ways of thinking made men believe that they wanted to go to war and fight one another. The class named such false beliefs as fear, hatred, greed, jealousy, envy, dishonesty, selfishness, and pride. The teacher asked the class whether any of these false traits belonged to man made in the image and likeness of God. The reply was that not one of them any part of the real man of God's creating. Then the class talked for a while about the true qualities of God reflected by man, of which the unlovely traits they had mentioned were unreal opposites, and several of the Beatitudes were cited in bringing out the good qualities expressed by man.

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