Article July 18, 1942 Issue

Sunday School Notes and Comments

with contributions from Herbert Welch

"Am I teaching in such a manner that each student in my class will come to understand how to heal?" This is a question which a teacher who was striving to obedient to Article XX of the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, asked himself. Thought was carefully searched to ascertain whether this work was being properly done.

After much earnest study, the teacher for several Sundays in succession called the pupils' attention to the following statement by Mrs. Eddy on page 129 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "If you wish to know the spiritual fact, you can discover it by reversing the material fable, be the fable pro or con,—be it in accord with your preconceptions or utterly contrary to them." If false belief suggested disease, the student was taught to discover "the spiritual fact," that since God made man in His image and likeness, man reflects God in perfect wholeness. Man therefore could not possibly be conscious of God's unlikeness, which He did not create. This type of teaching has borne much fruit.

The "first lessons" taught in the Christian Science Sunday School in accordance with Mrs. Eddy's instructions in Article XX, Section 3, of the Church Manual, may be made more interesting by a weaving in of background material from the Bible. With the older pupils especially, there is afforded opportunity to widen their knowledge of Bible incidents. There need be no haste in leaving these "first lessons," for the light that Christian Science throws upon the meaning of the Scriptural passages concerned, is inexhaustible.

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