Article January 20, 1951 Issue

Reading in the Classes

Since Article XX, Section 3, of the Manual provides that the essential content of the next lessons be questions and answers, teachers sometimes ask, "How much reading from the Lesson-Sermon may be done in the classes?" It is always in order to read from the Bible and Science and Health in answer to questions presented to the class. The reading may be done either by the teacher or by the pupils.

Sometimes the teacher finds that all of the pupils have not studied the Lesson-Sermon before coming to Sunday School, but this need not be a deterrent to the questions and answers which the Manual requires. When the teacher comes to the class prepared to ask thought-provoking questions, the answers the pupils give enable the teacher to empty their thought of erroneous concepts and to replace such concepts with truth as presented in the Bible and Science and Health.

In our textbook Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 201): "We cannot fill vessels already full. They must first be emptied." Many teachers have found that the emptying and refilling of thought by means of questions and answers impresses the pupils with the value of the Lesson-Sermon and the need of studying it throughout the week.

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