In the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. XX, Sects. 2 and 3) Mary Baker Eddy outlines the lessons which are to be taught in the Christian Science Sunday School. There also we are told that "the instruction given by the children's teachers must not deviate from the absolute Christian Science contained in their textbook." What a syllabus! Here is sufficient material for a lifetime of study. As we progress through the Sunday school and study these lessons carefully, we learn more about God and His universe. Through continued study we are helped to combat the false psychology of the material world which we are taught in our day schools, colleges, and businesses. When we, therefore, come across anything contrary to what we have been taught in the Sunday school, we can immediately remember the spiritual facts we have learned and thus not allow any erring thoughts to steal into our consciousness.
As the student grows older, temptations may arise to prevent regular attendance at Sunday school. Let him recognize these as temptations and deal with them as such.
One may think, "I am too grown up to go to a Sunday school." How can we be too grown up to study so inexhaustible a subject as Christian Science? It contains infinite variety, far more so than any course leading to a degree. As far back as the time of Moses, God told him to number the people (Num. 1:2, 3): "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel . . . from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel." Here, therefore, is the age which was accepted, even then, as the time at which to take the complete stand against the hosts of evil, without being a liability and with the minimum risk of falling in the struggle. In recent years many young Scientists, among whom is included the writer, have left Sunday school to go forth to war. They have found themselves better prepared than they would have been without their studies in the Sunday school.
