Article May 15, 1965 Issue

Little Children: Lambs, Not Lions

A teacher in a Christian Science Sunday School writes:

"For years I ducked appointments to the position of Sunday School teacher. Finally gratitude for the understanding of God my own daughter has gained overshadowed my procrastination.

"My first Sunday in a class of two to four-year-olds was bedlam! If I had not had ten years in a police cruiser, I probably would have followed my first impulse—to run. But after facing guns and knives, I could not go down under a junior assault. It did not seem as though the children gained anything that first day. However, later a mother of one girl told me her daughter had said that everyone had been naughty, but the teacher was not angry.

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