"THE entire education of children should be such as to form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law, with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease." Thus writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 62 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
In making provision for instruction in the Christian Science Sunday School, Mrs. Eddy specifies in the Manual of The Mother Church that the pupils shall be taught the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer and its spiritual interpretation, and the Sermon on the Mount. She further provides (Art. XX, Sect. 3), "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." Our Leader foresaw the divine protection that this teaching would bring into the pupils' lives.
The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are the foundation upon which the teaching of the moral and spiritual law is based in the Christian Science Sunday School. Through spiritual understanding the pupils learn how to pray, and through daily obedience to the moral and spiritual law they find that their prayers are answered, and answered aright.
