Article January 19, 1957 Issue

A New Sunday School Teacher

[From a teacher in a branch church Sunday School]

As a new teacher begins work in the Sunday School, he might find it helpful to take a comprehensive look at the whole school and its purpose. It has been helpful to me, in pondering what I should teach in any particular class, to consider what the pupils' future teachers would probably wish the pupils had learned in my class.

In teaching all age groups, one might well consider the words of Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 445): "Unfold the latent energies and capacities for good in your pupil. Teach the great possibilities of man endued with divine Science. Teach the dangerous possibility of dwarfing the spiritual understanding and demonstration of Truth by sin, or by recourse to material means for healing." And it is important that the pupils in all classes learn to love our Leader and to appreciate her life and work.

To the last classes, the thought of becoming members of the church and going on into church work is important. Therefore the pupils will need to be familiar with the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, to know their duty to our Leader as well as to God and mankind. They will need to know how to do their own metaphysical work on more mature levels.

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