Article September 9, 1985 Issue

Sunday School teacher

JOHN M. CUNO

You're taking over the oldest class. This is your first meeting with them. The air is alive with adventure and possibility (as when, on the old sailing vessels before lengthy voyages, captains mustered their crews to the afterdeck).

Without preamble, and using the device of the present tense, you plunge into a story from the Bible Lesson.^{The weekly Bible Lessons are found in the Christian Science Quarterly.} You call it "The Man Who Wants Everything." (Stories are attention-holders.)

"There's this man," you tell them, "who has a great hunger for human experience and the things of the world and a great desire for knowledge. He builds himself houses, plants vineyards, has gold and rare treasures brought to him from remote places, surrounds himself with musicians. ..."

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