Article October 18, 1941 Issue

Sunday School Notes and Comments

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," on page 598, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity;" and she adds (p. 599), "Eternity is God's measurement of Soul-filled years." In the Christian Science Sunday School, pupils are being taught how to obtain this "spiritual understanding of Life and Love."

Each pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School should be receiving a spiritual understanding of Life and Love, the Principle of all true being. When the lessons are clearly and understandingly presented each Sunday, the teachers are proving for themselves, as well as for the pupils, Mrs. Eddy's statement (ibid., p. 102), "There is but one real attraction, that of Spirit." Through this teaching the children are learning how to solve their daily problems by applying the truths of Christian Science which have been taught them.

The pupils need to understand how to make their own demonstrations and to prepare their Sunday school lessons, not depending on the parents' time and understanding. The parents, however, have a very important part in the Sunday school work. Their work is to help the children see the advantage of preparing the Sunday school lesson each week, and to show by their own lives the value of Christian Science. In their close contact with the children at home they can aid them in applying these lessons in their daily activities. The child is receptive to good, and is most likely to be interested when he finds that the Sunday school teachings may be applied to his everyday life. When he is learning how to be fair and kind to his playmates and others, obedient to his parents and teachers, and gives the required attention to his day school and Sunday school work, he is laying a right foundation for Christian Science practice.

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