What our church members of tomorrow—the present members of our Sunday School—will be depends largely upon us, the church members of today. Our whole-heartedness, our spirituality, our dependability, and our consecrated stand for Truth will help to mold the Christian Scientists of tomorrow. The Cause of Christian Science grows and prospers in the measure that our Science is lived. Let us live it, then; as never before that our lives may be an inspiration to the young Christian Scientists of today.

We must adhere to the divine facts in the minutiae of our daily experience. In the degree that we maintain this stand, in spite of opposing material sense testimony, will divine Mind evidence its continuity in the growth and future prosperity of our movement.

Let us prayerfully consider our course in the light of what has been presented at this Annual Meeting in reports and addresses, in Workshop gatherings, and in helpful contacts with fellow workers from around the globe. Truly does Mary Baker Eddy, our beloved Leader, say in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 132), "Divine Love has strengthened the hand and encouraged the heart of every member of this large church."

It is clearly evident that Love alone will win our Sunday School pupils, teach them in the way that they should go, and make them the active church members and loyal workers of tomorrow. Pure spiritual-mindedness, which is Love with us, must be established in the Sunday School, for Love alone can maintain and prosper this work.

We have but one thing to do to build for eternity, and that is to love—divinely, consistently, ceaselessly. Let us refuse to be invaded, no matter how slightly, by the mass mesmerism of human drive and self-promotion. Let us permit divine Mind, divine Love, to unfold its unerring presence as demonstrated guidance and consequently as the right thing said and done at the right time.

The Sunday School gains its vitality from our devoted demonstration of Truth. It unfolds from this basis to enlighten and bless mankind. We must expand our vision of the measureless influence it can have in world affairs as the pupils gain not a theory about divine Mind as a power external to themselves, but a demonstrable spiritual understanding. Such understanding is the animus and impulsion of all true accomplishment and alone can solve humanity's problems.

Christian Science is Science, and it must be presented as Science. It is vital and dynamic beyond any force in the world today, and therefore it is challenging beyond anything else that can be presented to the younger generation. It must be seen and presented as the final revelation of Truth. And it is as the actual Science of ever-present, divine power or law that it will win the Sunday School pupil to our churches.

It is of the utmost importance to our young people that those responsible for their education along spiritual lines recognize the oneness of Mind. Every parent and teacher should see and maintain this fact, for it underlies genius, the freedom to receive and to express the limitless nature of man's origin and of his present capabilities.

Because of the seeming demands and insecurity of these times, the Sunday School pupils of today will have had an experience unlike that of the majority of the present membership. If we are to serve with inspiration and intuition in the Sunday School that the needs of these young people may be met, our own thought must partake of the divine nature, and spiritual intuition must be present to guide us in our teaching.

As these pupils become church members, wisdom and love will guide us to put them on committees and in other places of trust that will interest them and expand their abilities to serve.

Our thought must not become involved in coping with another generation. Let it rather be radiant in demonstrating the continuity of man as God's beloved idea. The effort of animal magnetism is to narrow our spiritual vision by diverting our attention to mere human ways and means. The bridge that will span the gulf which seems to exist between generations is the understanding of Truth, lived and loved.

Above all, let us keep the Sunday School a joyful place radiating the goodness that makes a happy, wholesome atmosphere of uncritical love which is like fresh air and sunshine to growing things. Such an atmosphere will always be felt when the church members approach this work as an opportunity to prove Immanuel, or "God with us." There can be no place for criticism, envy, ambition, and personal desire in Sunday School work.

When an atmosphere of love prevails in the church, as well as in the Sunday School, we find the pupils eagerly becoming members of a branch church and of The Mother Church during or at the close of their Sunday School experience.

Surely we see more clearly than ever before that it is divine Love consistenly demonstrated that will win the Sunday School pupils and the stranger to our churches. We impart successfully to others only what we live ourselves. We convey our appreciation of our Leader intuitively and correctly only as we ourselves follow her as she followed Christ.

The infinitude of good silences the supposition that evil is a claimant or a claim. In the words of John (15:13), "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." As we lay down all personal sense testimony, as we refuse to accept as real the beliefs of mortality which have been imposed upon us, how fully will divine Mind be operative in the activity of our Sunday School and of our church!

There is no more brief but definite admonition in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, than the three words (p. 246), "Never record ages." True, the recording of such marks on paper at times is requisite. But how immeasurably would the church member of tomorrow be benefited by a greater degree of obedience on the part every one of us in maintaining the spiritual standpoint indicated in this unequivocal counsel. Pure Science educates us to the birthlessness of being. It reveals man at the standpoint of completeness and denounces as unreal the claim that youth is a state of immaturity and irresponsibility.

The church members of tomorrow—yes, and the church members of today—will be truly blessed in just the measure that we permit Truth to demonstrate its allness as our conscious knowing, thereby releasing us from the belief of many minds, which is the basis of all bondage.

Pure spiritual-mindedness precludes all bondage. The following words from our textbook show how completely Mrs. Eddy's thought embraced all mankind (p. 227): "Citizens of the world, accept the 'glorious liberty of the children of God,' and be free!" May we echo her words in our lives so fully that our Sunday Schools will grow and expand until all mankind will become the church members of tomorrow. Through Christian Science the "glorious liberty of the children of God" is ours to be demonstrated until all the earth is free.