Editorial May 17, 1975 Issue

Sunday School Is like a Ball Game

Naomi Price

You can do a lot in an hour, and the most important hour in your whole week can be the one you spend in Sunday School.

But to get the most out of anything you do, you have to make some effort. You have to do your part and not just watch and listen to others. If you're playing some kind of ball game, you have to join in. When someone throws or hits or kicks a ball in your direction, it's not going to be any fun for you or anyone else if you don't respond and catch or hit or kick the ball in return.

It's something like that in the Sunday School hour. Your teacher comes prepared to do his part. He has prayed to God, divine Mind, for guidance as to how to follow the instructions Mrs. Eddy set out in the Manual of The Mother Church. For the younger students, how to teach the Ten Commandments and the grand lessons of Christ Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. And then, for pupils who are ready for more advanced teaching, how to carry out the requirement that follows: "The next lessons consist of such questions and answers as are adapted to a juvenile class, and may be found in the Christian Science Quarterly Lessons, read in Church services." Man., Art. XX, Sect. 3;

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