Article January 4, 1941 Issue

Sunday School Notes and Comments

One of the instructions for Sunday school teaching given by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the Manual of The Mother Church, and referring to the work which shall follow the "first lessons" in the Sunday school, reads (Art. XX, Sect. 3): "The next lessons consist of such questions and answers as are adapted to a juvenile class, and may be found in the Christian Science Quarterly Lessons, read in Church services. The instruction given by the children's teachers must not deviate from the absolute Christian Science contained in their textbook."

Mrs. Eddy was a profound student of our Master's life, and she knew that Jesus often used the method of questioning his listeners, and answering questions. This method helps to bring all the children into the discussion, to break any sense of dreaminess, and generally maintain a state of awareness.

Jesus asked the kind of questions which call for thought, as: "Shew me a penny. Whose image and supersciption hath it?" "The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?" "Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill?" "Doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" "Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?" Thus he is recorded as asking questions of individuals and groups.

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