Article May 20, 1950 Issue

ANNOUNCEMENT

Throughout the Field, Sunday School teachers and officers, perhaps more than ever before, are becoming aware of the need for thorough instruction in the first lessons as defined by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in Section 3 of Article XX of the Church Manual. An effort is being made to have the pupils become thoroughly conversant with the letter as well as the spirit of the first lessons as soon as possible, and to have them so trained in the application of these lessons throughout all age levels that when they leave the Sunday School at the age of twenty they will have established a standard for thought and action that will ensure their uninterrupted spiritual progress.

Therefore an opportunity is afforded for a valuable sharing of experiences which may be used in this column, in our workshop meetings, or in our correspondence and interviews with workers in the Field, for this purpose the Sunday School Activities Division now invites communications from the Field on the subject of teaching the first lessons. It appears that not infrequently pupils are more familiar with other portions of the first lessons than they are with the Beatitudes; hence experiences on the teaching of the Beatitudes will be especially welcome. Sunday School workers will be interested to know the different ways in which teachers are presenting the first lessons, both in the younger classes and in the older ones, and how the pupils are applying them in their daily living. Communications may be addressed to Miss Katherine Traband, Supervisor, Sunday School Activities Division, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts.

Sunday School teachers' meetings afford an excellent opportunity for teachers to exchange experiences on the teaching of the lessons. A superintendent of a branch church Sunday School in which the attendance is steadily increasing writes as follows: "Some time ago we had a meeting of all the workers in the Sunday School. The topic was 'Teaching the Commandments.' Each commandment was assigned to a teacher who spoke of some way in which she had presented it to her class, how her pupils had applied it, or anything that she felt would be helpful to the teachers. We all felt we had received so much good that I was led to use the Beatitudes for the topic at a more recent meeting, It was a splendid meeting, and one of the teachers who had not taken part said, 'I may not remember all the good points that were brought out on teaching the Beatitudes, but I shall certainly be more awake to the need of keeping them a part of our Sunday School work.'

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