Article October 11, 1947 Issue

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL HOUR

MARION D. MAC CANN

Does not every teacher in a Christian Science Sunday School leave the class at the end of the hour with a deepened desire for consecration, a heart rededicated to a more steadfast use of the law of Love?

Understanding and its application are the very keynotes of Christian Science. The first lessons to be taught the children as indicated by Mary Baker Eddy in the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. XX, Sect. 3)—the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer and its spiritual interpretation by our Leader, the Beatitudes—give scope to many variations on the theme of application. The lives of Bible characters who in large measure achieved the spiritual standard of these lessons offer interesting studies for today.

The sparkle of question and answer, used as a basic teaching method, illustrates the brightness of Truth's appeal. And encouragement to spontaneous discussion hints another of Truth's qualities. The Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy are the textbooks used in Christian Science Sunday Schools. Questions which require turning to these two books for answers make the pupils familiar with their contents. And when pupils ask questions, the opportunity arrives for which the teacher has been preparing, and she can encourage them, through appeals to their own innate power of discerning analysis, to become more conscious of man's oneness with Mind, God.

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