Article June 15, 1940 Issue

Sunday School Notes and Comments

A teacher was happy one morning to find in her class a girl of about sixteen who had come with a young Christian Scientist whom she was visiting. The teacher noticed that this young visitor did not join in the opening hymn, and did not seem to want to take any part in the service.

Quickly divine Love unfolded to the teacher's prayerful thought what seemed to be troubling this young person. She had possibly heard Christian Science spoken of disparagingly; had perhaps formed a critical opinion about it, based upon ignorance. Very carefully, in connection with parts of the lesson, the teacher led the other girls in the class to tell of their own experience in applying Christian Science to various daily problems; of the joy and happiness which result from the study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly; of the poise and peace and inspiration that a growning understanding of Christian Science was bringing them. Each time that a healing was related, the teacher endeavored to show that it had come about solely through understanding and relying upon the teachings of the Bible and the explanation that Christian Science gives of its great spiritual truths. She pointed that all good comes to us from God, through the realization that He is the one and only power, the absolute Principle of our being. By the end of the study period, the visitor was not only listening eagerly, but asking intelligent questions about Christian Science, and inquiring how it could be used in everyday experience.

That afternoon, the pupil who had brought the visitor told the teacher how grateful she was for the patient way in which the class had explained Christian Science to her friend, who, prior to that morning, had entertained the belief that Christian Scientists did not study the Bible at all. This visiting pupil had left the Sunday school with the understanding that the teachings of Christian Science are based upon the Bible, the same Bible she had always known—the Authorized King James Version.

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