Article June 5, 1943 Issue

Sunday School Notes and Comments

It is very important that the life of our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, be presented to the pupils in the Christian Science Sunday School. Just as the nature of the incorporeal Christ cannot be fully comprehended without acquaintance with the life and character of Jesus, so the understanding of the revelation of Christian Science will lack completeness without an appreciation of the spirituality so evident in the life and character of the revelator, Mary Baker Eddy. The pupils should know that her inspired thought has given to the world the true idea of God, man, and the universe.

The first presentation to the pupils may be our Leader's place as Discoverer of Christian Science. This may be followed by consideration of her activities as demonstrator of this Science, and then as author of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and other inspired writings. Finally, the presentation should include her achievement in establishing The Mother Church and its related activities, which entitle her to be called "Founder."

As occasion offers, both younger and older pupils will be interested to hear of incidents during Mrs. Eddy's girlhood, which she has set forth in "Retrospection and Introspection." for they show the steps which prepared our Leader for her great work. They will be interested in finding that Mrs. Eddy, when a child, had marked ability to think independently, and to depart from the prevailing notions of her time, that from childhood she yearned to know God, and hence became an earnest student of the Bible. Pupils should be taught the part the Bible played in our Leader's life.

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