When one is asked for the first time to teach in a Christian Science Sunday School, if it has not been his earlier privilege to attend as a pupil, he is sometimes found asking himself: "How do I go about it? It is all so new to me!" The honest seeker will find, as in the solving of other problems, great help in the words of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 469): "The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind— called devil or evil—is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality."
Now let us see how this statement can be applied to teaching a class in the Christian Science Sunday School. We start with Mind—the one Mind, God. As we learn that God is infinite, we also accept the fact that Mind is infinite, and because of this we recognize that there can be no lack in Mind. Mind is ever imparting to man, and man is ever receiving. There could not be a need unsupplied or a divine blessing unfulfilled in the infinitude of Mind. A clear understanding of the ever-presence of Mind exterminates error, ignorance, and fear.
Our Leader, guided by infinite Mind, was divinely led in giving us definite instruction for Sunday school teaching. In Article XX of the Manual of The Mother Church, Section 3, she writes: "The first lessons of the children should be the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:317), the Lord's Prayer (Matt. 6:913), and its Spiritual Interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy, Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:3-12). The next lessons consist of such questions and answers as are adapted to a juvenile class, and may be found in the Christian Science Quarterly Lessons, read in Church services. The instruction given by the children's teachers must not deviate from the absolute Christian Science contained in their textbook."
