Article July 21, 1951 Issue

Teacher Gains Confidence

[From a teacher in a branch church Sunday School]

Some time ago, when teaching in the Sunday School. I recognized that my work was giving me no satisfaction, and I felt that I should either give up teaching or overcome the belief of being incapable of successful teaching. I reasoned that our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, must have considered the Sunday School of vital importance or she would not have made provision for it in the Manual of The Mother Church. I further reasoned that since others loved to teach in the Sunday School, surely there must be a way for me to overcome my negative attitude. Christian Science had brought many blessings to me, and I wished to be obedient and support wholeheartedly every activity of the Christian Science movement and to serve lovingly in am way I could.

I was led to study more carefully the weekly Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly and to ponder the Sunday School articles in the Christian Science periodicals. I also studied the Bible so that I might be able to meet the requirements set forth by Mrs. Eddy in the Manual (Art. XX, Sect. 2), which requires that the pupils: shall be taught the Scriptures.

After a period of earnest study, the belief of uncertainty disappeared and the burdened sense also vanished. Then I recognized that the inability and dissatisfaction which I had felt were the result of lack of preparation. I was now confident that I could teach; in fact, I could be as one of the children, ready to receive from the Lesson-Sermon each week the inspiration needed to let the Sunday School lessons unfold in a natural way.

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