Article August 13, 1960 Issue

Practical Lessons

[From a Sunday School Teacher in England]

"The student who heals by teaching and teaches by healing, will graduate under divine honors, which are the only appropriate seals for Christian Science" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 358). These words by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, point plainly to the method and standard which are within the reach of every earnest, consecrated Sunday School teacher when motivated b love for God and man.

The teacher should feel an affection for and loving interest in the class to which he has been assigned. He should have a genuine desire to share with the pupils the truths he has learned and to awaken in them an understanding of the power and far-reaching effect of God's Word. The teacher's confident trust in God, when shared with the pupils, helps to strengthen their faith in His power.

The teacher of a senior class noted with disappointment that the pupils' interest in turning to God for the solution of physical problems was rather lukewarm. She understood this attitude when she realized that her class was composed mainly of young people who, through the blessing of a Christianly scientific education, had not felt the need of physical healing. It seemed wise, therefore, in presenting questions and answers on the Lesson-Sermon, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, to stress God's great power to protect His children from claims of loss, chance, or accident.

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