Article July 30, 1955 Issue

THE VALUE OF CLASS INSTRUCTION

JOHN F. ANDERSON

In "Retrospection and Introspection" Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 87): "Experience has taught me that the rules of Christian Science can be far more thoroughly and readily acquired by regularly settled and systematic workers, than by unsettled and spasmodic efforts. Genuine Christian Scientists are, or should be, the most systematic and law-abiding people on earth, because their religion demands implicit adherence to fixed rules, in the orderly demonstration thereof."

We can always make effective demonstrations of Truth by applying the rules found in our Leader's revelation in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." But her words make it plain that more than a mere perusal of Science and Health is essential if we are to progress continually in our demonstration of the healing power of Christian Science. Any temptation to feel that we can make sufficient progress on our own without God's help should be quickly rejected. It is an argument of animal magnetism that would prevent the orderly and harmonious development of our understanding of infinite Principle.

When our Leader provided for class instruction in the divinely inspired Manual of The Mother Church, she said, speaking of a teacher's duties (Art. XXVI, Sect. 2): "He shall persistently and patiently counsel his pupils in conformity with the unerring laws of God, and shall enjoin them habitually to study the Scriptures and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as a help thereto."

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