Article May 18, 1940 Issue

Sunday School Notes and Comments

I have always been most grateful for an experience I had when I took my first Sunday school class.

I had carefully studied the rules governing Sunday school teaching in the Manual of The Mother Church, as well as references to the work that would be of help. The Bible verse, "And they shall be all taught of God," was most helpful, for it turned my thought to God as the one and only Teacher, and showed that divine Mind would unfold to me that which should be presented to the pupils, and that words would be given me to express the truth in a way which the children can understand, and which will meet their needs.

The work that I had faithfully done in knowing that God is the only Teacher, and the help received from studying our Leader's references to Sunday school teaching, to the Commandments and the Beatitudes, stood me in good stead, in removing any sense of personality from the thought of the pupils. But that hardly seemed necessary, as the following will show. I asked the children, "I wonder if you can tell me just who the teacher is?" Then instantly the reply came from the entire class, almost in unison: "God! God is the Teacher!" Need I say I was most grateful? Grateful, too, for the consecrated work of the previous teacher, who had prepared the thought of the pupils and taught them to look to God as their Teacher, so that they would make their adjustment to a change of teacher in the class harmoniously.

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