I have sweet memories of my days in the Christian Science Sunday School, growing up in Cuba. Most of my teachers weren’t originally from Cuba, and all of them were dedicated Christian Scientists who had taken Christian Science class instruction.
I remember three teachers specifically: my American teacher who was patient and loving, always appreciative of my desire to learn English—the language of Mary Baker Eddy’s writings; my British teacher, from whom I learned the importance of expressing divine Principle, God, in all aspects of my life; and my Jamaican teacher—a Christian Science practitioner who wouldn’t take “no” for an answer when it came to class participation.
In one of my early classes with this last teacher, she mentioned the importance of daily studying from the Manual of The Mother Church. At that time, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Retrospection and Introspection, and the Manual were the only writings by Mary Baker Eddy that had been translated into Spanish, my first language. I really tried to familiarize myself with these books, but I’ll admit that I only liked a few parts of the Manual, such as the “Daily Prayer.”
