I have a Sabbath School class of children of from thirteen to fourteen years. They are, with one or two exceptions, children of Scientists, so that the teaching received in the class is not new or strange to them.
In teaching, I strive to keep in mind that I am not to make use of the lesson to impress my own ideas upon the child, but rather to draw from him thoughts, impressions, or suggestions concerning it. It is only as he perceives and concludes for himself that he receives a clear and logical sense of the thought.
Another important point to recognize, is that children have a perception of Truth, spiritually, often to a greater degree than adults. In ten months' experience with a class I have always found the children ready and eager for the spiritual interpretation of the Word, manifesting an interest and attention that I never saw awakened, during an experience of many years, in an orthodox Sunday school. In our classes the merely external sense of the text is hardly ever alluded to, except when necessary to make the spiritual interpretation clearer. The children grasp the latter with an understanding that would confound those who declare things of Spirit to be too strong meat for babes.
