As faithful followers of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, students of Christian Science must apprehend fully the position of the Christian Science Sunday School as a power for good in the community. It is surely important for communities to be freed from juvenile delinquency, accidents, and disease. Christian Scientists must see to it that the Sunday School contributes to this vital work. They must feel assured that the truth taught by its consecrated teachers is bearing fruit.
One of the missions of a Church of Christ, Scientist, is to heal human ills in its community. And each church member must support the mission of the Sunday School in the community. The work of affirming the truth concerning children, seeing them as perfect ideas of God, must not be limited to the Sunday School staff. All church members should be alert to the guises in which animal magnetism seems to appear to thwart the enlightenment of the Christ in consciousness. And they must understand the unreality of evil.
In the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy defines "children" thus (pp. 582, 583):
