Article July 15, 1961 Issue

The Seed Within Itself

[From a teacher in a branch church Sunday School]

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy defines "Church" as follows (p. 583): "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

"The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting our devils, or error, and healing the sick."

The Sunday School as an integral part of Church must show evidence of its usefulness. The relation of Sunday School to Church may be likened to that of the fruit, whose seed is in itself, to the "tree yielding fruit after his kind," spoken of in the first chapter of Genesis. As the tree must first yield the fruit, so the Church must produce and cherish the growth of the Sunday School in order that the Sunday School may be fed and sustained. Its utility can be measured by its capacity to awaken the child's spiritual sense.

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