In the church of which I was formerly a member I taught a coeducational class of high school and college boys and girls and had a great deal of joy and unfoldment in the work. My work was commended by the board of directors of the local church and by the Sunday School superintendent.

When I became a member of a Church of Christ, Scientist, in the city in which I now live, I was asked if I liked small children. I replied that I did and that I had been a music teacher prior to becoming a registered practitioner and had been very successful with small children, also that I had reared four children of my own. So I was given a class of four-and five-year-olds.

The first Sunday was exceedingly difficult. They were very unruly and playful, and when the hour was over I thought: I shall not go on with this class, for I have had experience with older boys and girls and have been lifted above teaching these little ones. With my understanding of Truth this is no place for me; so I shall ask the superintendent to get someone else for the baby class and add that I should be happy to teach an older class.

And then the challenge came, Why not prove my "superior" understanding right where I was and where the need was? So I started then and there to see these pupils as God's children, complete, obedient, intelligent, orderly, joyous, and receptive to Truth and Love. The very next Sunday they responded to this work, and they are now looked upon as one of the best-behaved classes in the Sunday School. I have since learned from the superintendent that they asked me to take the class to see if I could bring order to it, because formerly they had not been able to keep a teacher in the class for more than two weeks. I have now been teaching it a year, and every Sunday at least one pupil tells of a demonstration of Truth in physical healing, in helping parents, or in overcoming anger or selfishness. And all the parents have spoken of the wonderful benefits the children are receiving from their Sunday School lessons.

Twice we have been able to help other teachers restore order in their classes by looking away from noise and disorder next door to us and seeing God's perfect child. One Sunday a child left her class next to ours and stood in front of our class crying loudly and saying she was going home. I told the children to look away from error and see the little girl as God's child, who loved Truth. We said the Lord's Prayer and repeated Mary Baker Eddy's words (Poems, pp. 12, 13), "Father, where Thine own children are,I love to be." By the time we had finished, the little girl had gone back happily to her class, and nothing more was ever heard of the incident.

Tots and Their Textbooks

As a result of special metaphysical work for my class of threeand four-year-olds I was led to show the pupils the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. Children of this age look forward to learning to read, and a great interest was shown in these two books. It was explained to them that although these books looked much like other books, actually they were very different. Furthermore, they were told that Christian Scientists love these books above all others because the Word of God is found in them. The children were told that the Word of God heals. It was also explained to them that Mrs. Eddy was told by God what to write, and that she wrote just what He told her.

The children quickly learned the titles of both books, including Mrs. Eddy's full name as author of the textbook, Science and Health. I read the First Commandment to them from the Bible and also read lines 15 to 17 and 20 to 29 from page 340 of the textbook. The purpose of this was partly to show them that these two books are to be studied together. The genuine interest of the children and the understanding which they expressed proved to me that ability to grasp spiritual ideas in their simpler meanings is not dependent upon age. The children like to see the books and talk about them, and some have told their parents what they have learned in class regarding them.

It has been helpful to present to the class a clearer understanding of prayer. They were asked what they would do if sometime they should be requested to help someone who did not feel well. They agreed that they would not give medicine because only God could make the person well. One little boy said that the person could not be sick because he was God's child. Further discussion brought out that when we say that man is perfect because God is perfect, we are telling the truth. And this telling the truth of God and man is praying, and it heals.