Article October 1, 1960 Issue

HELPING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO PROGRESS

Our Leader's Provision for Teaching and Helping Young People in the Sunday School

By Mrs. Frances P. Tutt, Kansas City, Missouri

[This is the second of three addresses and a panel discussion given at the meeting in the Extension of The Mother Church on June 8, 1960. The panel discussion will appear next week.]

In a letter to the Sunday School of The Mother Church, Mary Baker Eddy speaks of the Christian education of children as a foundational trust. She says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 230), "It is a joy to know that they who are faithful over foundational trusts, such as the Christian education of the dear children, will reap the reward of rightness, rise in the scale of being, and realize at last their Master's promise, 'And they shall be all taught of God.'"

Now, education means more than just informing. Teaching is both implantation and unfoldment. The true teacher seeks to release the possibilities in the pupil. Our Leader's provision for the Sunday School, as set forth in the mighty framework of the Manual of The Mother Church, includes not only teaching, but also helping the pupils, helping them to understand. So teaching must be pitched to the developing of the capacity of the pupil and the corresponding ability to receive and to utilize the workable truths presented. This provision ranges from unadulterated milk for the babes in Science to such meat as may be indicated for growing needs of the individual up to the end of the Sunday School's responsibility.

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