Article August 17, 1946 Issue

Sunday School

More Teachers and Better Teaching

"Tell it to the generation following" (Ps. 48:13). This has been God's behest to His people throughout the history of enlightened human thought. Moses repeatedly commanded that the children be instructed in the divine law, and their children after them. No less imperative is today's demand upon Christian Scientists to perpetuate the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy. In this time of world-wide moral chemicalization, children need the refuge of the Christian Science Sunday School. Just as Noah was called upon to build an ark for the saving of himself and his family, so Christian Scientists are called upon to give the children the Science of being, which alone can shield them from worldly contamination and preserve in them unstained those qualities which will establish Christ's kingdom on the earth.

The Christian Science Sunday School is our Leader's provision for the children. It is a vital part of our church and should have the active support of every Christian Scientist. Reports from the Field indicate that our Sunday Schools need more teachers, capable teachers, in all age groups. In the primary classes, where the enrollment is very large, the work consists not of conducting an entertainment period in order to keep the little ones from disturbing the rest of the Sunday School, but of cultivating in these little pupils a genuine love for all that is true and good, so that they may learn in their own daily activities to distinguish between the real and the unreal, to accept the one and to reject the other.

The work in the intermediate classes should so strengthen the spiritual foundation of the boys and girls that as they come into the teen ages no phase of animal magnetism can lure them from the Sunday School. The children should be taught to use the Bible as their "chart of life," to measure their thoughts and actions by the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, and to find in the Lord's Prayer the solution to their every problem.

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