Sunday School Notes and Comments

Two attributes of divine Mind essential in teaching young people in the Christian Science Sunday School are freshness and inspiration. Should the teacher permit the instruction to become stereotyped or to adhere to a too fixed pattern, students would lose that zeal which should mark their attitude toward the class teaching. Mrs. Eddy interprets the spiritual sense of "zeal" as "the reflected animation of Life, Truth, and Love," on page 599 of the Glossary in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

An important element in sustaining the enthusiasm of students is adequate preparation on the part of the teacher. Such preparation involves not only a study of the Lesson-Sermon for the purpose of emphasizing its spiritual healing values, but also appropriate research of factual date pertaining to Bible books, characters, and incidents.

A moment of the Sunday school hour devoted to the mention of salient episodes in the lives of prophets and apostles, as these Bible characters occur in the Lesson-Sermon, serves to identify them in the unfolding thought of young people as something more than mere names. Should, for example, the Lesson-Sermon contain a citation from one of the prophets, would not that citation have more lasting significance to students if the teacher, already accurately informed through proper preparation during the week, were able to state some interesting facts concerning the prophet's purpose and work?

In the eighth chapter of Acts, Philip's familiarity with the Scriptures is attested in his meeting with "a man of Ethiopia," who asked the question regarding Esaias, "I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?" and "Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus."

One teacher finds in the Christian Science periodicals and the lectures many helpful thoughts which may be presented to the pupils. She always makes it a point to mention the issue of the periodical in which the article appears, and feels that this will encourage the pupils to read the periodicals and that thus they are becoming acquainted with the good contained in all of the Christian Science literature.

Occasionally the class turns to the Glossary in Science and Health and looks up Mrs. Eddy's definitions of "God," "man," "Christ," "Jesus," "Church," and so on. A review of these important words in the study of Christian Science is very helpful to the pupils.

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