CHRIST JESUS said, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The entrance to this divinely mental kingdom of right thinking and right doing has been found by both pupils and teachers through faithful attendance and loyal service in the Christian Science Sunday School.
One of the most desirable characteristics attributed to childhood is joyousness, a freshness and freedom of outlook, unhampered by worry, anxiety, or fear. Spontaneity, which finds expression in cheerfulness and a happy expectancy of good, is another sparkling quality which is commonly reflected by children. Nowhere, perhaps, do we find a more striking example of this type of thought than in the usually radiant happiness of the pupils of the Christian Science Sunday School. Here the children are receiving instruction from the Bible and from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and are learning to utilize the spiritual understanding they are acquiring in solving their everyday problems.
In this hour of study, prayer, and song, teachers and pupils alike gain much help and benefit through wisdom, humility, and obedience, particularly when faithful mental work has been done by the officers and teachers during the week for divine guidance. Systematic study and preparation should be encouraged on the part of those pupils who are old enough to comprehend its value. Parents may wisely cooperate in this respect, and help their children to see the good to be derived from the daily study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Sermon on the Mount, and pertinent passages in the Christian Science textbook.
