Article March 19, 1955 Issue

Fruitage from One Class

A Sunday School teacher, whose class is made up of boys and girls of high school and junior high school age, takes special interest in helping his pupils to apply the Sunday School lessons in their daily activities. The following is his account of some of the experiences of the pupils, all of whom are putting the lessons into practice.

"Joan failed in Spanish II and was prepared to spend her entire summer vacation making up the work. Joan had not been diligent in applying Christian Science in her schoolwork, but as we talked about her relationship to God, she became awakened to the necessity for alertness and obedience. In three weeks the teacher told her she could take the test. During the test she remembered her Sunday School teaching—that God is Mind, her Mind, and the only Mind there is—and she was confident that divine Mind would reveal to her the correct answers. To the amazement of her teachers her grade was 85. This was especially remarkable in that she had inadvertently been given a test in Spanish IV, which she had never studied, instead of Spanish II, in which she had formerly failed.

"Another pupil, Susan, had been getting poor grades in arithmetic and government, and one evening she called to talk about a test which she was to take on the following day. The discussion disclosed among other shortcomings a lack of poise. It was pointed out to Susan that this quality and other Godlike qualities belonged to her by divine right and never could be taken away; also that as she confidently put her trust in God, she would be able to prove that man is God's reflection and so her work would be such that it would glorify God. When the papers were graded, the teacher expressed surprise that instead of failing in these subjects Susan had made very good grades.

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