Editorial December 4, 1943 Issue

Teaching Christian Science—a Sacred Trust

Paul Stark Seeley

In human experience the teaching of children and adults goes on and on in an endless stream. One generation teaches another; the schooled teach the unschooled; the skilled teach the unskilled. Through individual effort and organized systems the vital activity of teaching flows on, all to the end that men may share with one another the light of knowledge.

The greatest teacher in history is Christ Jesus. He taught so well because he understood so clearly. His teachings changed the course of human history. They revealed the supremacy of Spirit's constructive power over destructive material forces, and man's ability, as the expression of God, to demonstrate this fact. Mary Baker Eddy is the greatest teacher since the Master. She taught the spiritual verities which he taught, and made plain how each individual can successfully apply them to his human needs.

After her discovery of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy realized that her work had but begun. She must find the ways to disseminate and establish this God-revealed Christ Science in the consciousness of men. First came the publication in 1875, of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in which she includes a chapter on "Teaching Christian Science." Then she began to teach those desiring spiritual instruction. At first there were very few; later there were many. Between 1876 and 1889 she taught a large number of students. Many of these she sent out to become teachers in their home communities.

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