Article June 20, 1983 Issue

"First lessons" in moral and spiritual law (Part I)

JON GIB HARDER

Prepared for the Church Activities Department of The Mother Church. Third of eight articles.

Through their Sunday Schools, our churches teach children the moral and spiritual laws of scientific Christianity that strengthen and support them. From the earliest classes, the pupils learn of God's ever-presence and nearness. They learn that divine Principle helps and heals us, and shows us how to turn with obedience to our Father-Mother. They begin to grasp how much everyone is loved by divine Love.

What is a teacher's work? To teach by his living and his words the spiritual and moral law of the Bible, which finds its clearest expression in Christian Science. To teach according to this standard is to fulfill the promise of the Psalmist: "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised .... One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts."^{Ps. 145:3, 4.}

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