Sunday School, Monday School

CAROLYN A. TUCHER

When our children were small, I was asked to teach a class of preschoolers in the Sunday School of our branch church. I loved the assignment, no part of it more than sharing favorite Bible stories with the children. The youngsters learned eagerly about Abraham, David, and Paul. We studied Jonah, who learned to obey God, and Daniel, who proved it is not food that makes us strong.

Suddenly, it dawned on me that the lessons prepared with such enthusiasm for my Sunday School class could be shared with our own children. Why not study those lessons together at home? Why leave Bible study for Sundays? Why not on Mondays, too?

I wanted the children to become familiar with the Bible as a daily guide, to know it well, and to learn to trust its directions. A spiritual sense of the Bible's message opens the way to understanding the healing power of Christian Science. In Mrs. Eddy's words, the first tenet of Christian Science reads: "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life."^{Science and Health, p. 497;}