The writer has always felt deeply grateful for the privilege of being a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday school. Young people are often shy about going to a practitioner for help in the overcoming of their everyday troubles in school or at the start of their business careers, and it is just here that the Sunday school lends such a helping hand. One is not in a Sunday school of a Church of Christ, Scientist, merely to be taught a theory which one ought to understand. Mrs. Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 38), "Its practical application to benefit the race, heal the sick, enlighten and reform the sinner, makes divine metaphysics needful, indispensable;" and this is surely true in connection with the affairs of the young as well as of those who are grown up.
The Sunday school is indeed the "shadow of a great rock" to all who attend, encouraging, protecting, and steadying the ambitions.
I think I have loved and appreciated the Sunday school even more since I have myself had some experience in teaching children in another branch church, because I have better understood the splendid work of those who taught me. Great tact is needed in dealing with children, and especially with the older students. They are finding their footing, so to speak, in life, and they have to prove for themselves that they really want Christian Science. If they are honest and sincere, however, they will find that they are able to handle the serpent in all its forms, and the teacher through his greater experience can lighten what would otherwise be a burden, showing the student that the government is upon the shoulders of the Christ-idea.
