Article January 19, 1946 Issue

Our Christening

HORACE J. CARVER

Speaking of the children who had contributed to the building of the original edifice of The Mother Church and to whom she dedicated "Pulpit and Press," Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 8), "Some of these lambs my prayers had christened, but Christ will rechristen them with his own new name."

The function of the Christian Science Sunday School is to fulfill this purpose of rechristening the children, and its entire work is to this end. To the extent that teachers and officers consistently know each child by the "new name" and nature which Christian Science reveals to that extent does the Sunday, school succeed in its mission.

As in other phases of church activity, there is the temptation in work for the Sunday school to measure success merely by human standards, which are often both misleading and superficial: for example, the number of pupils in attendance or the number of new pupils entering. Not that these, when favorable, are objectionable. But have we ever been able to define a spiritual concept by material standards without, in belief, limiting and restricting it?

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