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The Value of Illustrations in Teaching
[From a teacher in a branch church Sunday School]
How can we present the vital truths of Christian Science so that they will have more meaning to the Sunday School pupil and so that the young person will have a greater desire to accept the Science of Christianity and put it into practice? The pupil in the older classes frequently has a good grasp of the letter and some understanding of its spiritual meaning. But the glib response a Sunday School teacher sometimes hears may be an attempt to conceal the fact that the pupil does not really understand the meaning of what is being discussed.
A teacher prayerfully seeking guidance to meet such a situation will find it helpful to consider the following passage by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 575): "Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols. Did not Jesus illustrate the truths he taught by the mustard-seed and the prodigal?"

March 17, 1962 issue
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"An 'angel standing in the sun'"
FLORENCE C. SOUTHWELL
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Living in the Present Good
ANNE KIMBELL RELPH
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ASPIRATION
Althea Brooks Hollenbeck
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The Ever-presence of the Christ
CHARLES BING MAYS
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SPACE-AGE QUESTION
Francis Ward Grubb
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"Grace for to-day"
ELIZABETH BICE LUERSSEN
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Retaining Our Joy
ANDREW K. CLINE
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The Three L's
SUZANNE MERIWETHER SMITH
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Evil Is Not Individual
Helen Wood Bauman
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Scientific Method
Carl J. Welz
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Over twenty years ago Christian Science...
Ruth Schear
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It is with heartfelt gratitude to...
Myrtle A. Rosenbalm
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I should like to testify to the...
Enid Clement Peace
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"Hast thou a friend, and forgettest...
Phillip Warren Kupper
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"Trust in the Lord with all...
Hilda A. Kinnee
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As a child I was so delicate that...
Alma Rea
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Signs of the Times
O. E. Peterson