Article January 19, 1946 Issue

Sunday School Observations

When I started teaching a class of small boys, they were inattentive and disobedient and appeared to lack interest in the subject being discussed. Even the Bible stories failed to hold their attention and almost in despair. I considered asking the superintendent to assign me to another class or to relieve me altogether of teaching.

But while considering the next step to take, I began to notice that upon learning that I was teaching a class of young boys, or when the subject of young boys came up, people almost invariably spoke of their being unmanageable. I began to work to clear my thought of any condemnation of the boys and to hold to the spiritual definition of "children" as "the spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love," which Mrs. Eddy gives on page 582 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

I studied Genesis 1:3, which reads. "And God said. Let there be light: and there was light." I saw that this command was law and that the ideas emanating from divine Mind. God, were active and all-powerful. Consequently the result, "there was light." was simultaneous with the command. "Let there be light." So I saw that in reality no process of change from "bad" boys to "good" boys was necessary, but that mortal mind's condemnation needed to be destroyed by Truth, in order that the child of God might appear.

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