Primary Class Instruction February 16, 2015 Issue

The first step in a life of healing

Christopher Snow

After my junior year at university, I sat down and read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy from cover to cover. By the time I reached the chapter on the Apocalypse, I realized that Divine Science is the Comforter that Jesus promised (see John 14:16). I had been raised in the Christian Science Sunday School and had used Christian Science my whole life for healing, but now I had a definite desire to make it my way of life.

It was then that the thought of taking Christian Science Primary class instruction dawned on me. My parents and grandmother were class-taught, as were my Sunday School teachers and teachers at a Christian Science boarding school that I went to my senior year. I knew this instruction had made a big impact on their lives, but going about finding a teacher was somewhat of a mystery to me.

I visited my grandmother, and I talked with her about class. I said that I wanted to take class with someone in Boston or some other part of the world—anywhere but my home state. She mentioned that I shouldn’t limit my choices, as that could be a block to progress. I was familiar with a statement by Mrs. Eddy about class instruction, “Students who are ready for this step should beware the net that is craftily laid and cunningly concealed to prevent their advancement in this direction” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 241).

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