Article May 17, 1941 Issue

Sunday School Notes and Comments

The importance of teaching the Ten Commandments to the pupils in a Christian Science Sunday School cannot be emphasized too strongly. It is a comparatively simple matter to have even very young children memorize them, but to bring out their spiritual import requires great patience and faithful work on the part of the teacher. Frequent repetition of at least part of the Commandments and a review through discussion of their meaning help to fix them in memory. In the older classes where the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly is being studied, some passages can be found which bring to thought certain of the Commandments. If teachers are alert to this opportunity during the week's study, they will be prepared to bring helpful thoughts to the attention of the pupils through questions and answers. Useful illustrations for each one of the Commandments can be found in various Bible stories and incidents. This is also true of the Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer. Children enjoy working out such correlations, and it rouses in them a greater love for the Bible, and helps them to become more familiar with its teachings.

The children who go forth from a Christian Science Sunday School should be good citizens. This means that they must have developed the ability to think clearly and constructively. The boys and girls now being taught in our Sunday schools are gaining a right understanding of spiritual power. Christian Science teaches them how to use this understanding for the benefit of mankind—to further the peace and happiness of the people of the world. Nothing more important than the true sense of spiritual power can enter into the education of any child, and the teachers in Sunday school have the opportunity to instruct the pupils definitely and clearly on the subject of man's dominion, as set forth in the first chapter of Genesis and illustrated by the life and work of Christ Jesus.

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