A high light in my study of Christian Science was my privilege of attending the Sunday School. I had been a pupil there from the time I was a small child, but when I reached my early teens I thought that I was not getting enough from it and that I should leave Sunday School and attend the church services instead.
My mother urged me to go a little longer, however, and as I complied with the request I was roused to active interest, and the desire to leave completely faded out. The result was that I gained much more understanding at that period of my spiritual growth than I had expected to gain from the church services. The loving outpouring of the truth which I received from the consecrated teachers was so clear and searching that it remained a bulwark when I was tempted to accept suggestions of indifference to Christian Science later on. I recognized that its teachings were too valuable to be given up.
During university years the truth I learned at Sunday School was of inestimable aid in clarifying legal studies, political and economic theory, and particularly philosophy, with its mixture of human concepts so rarely illumined with pure truth. Mrs. Eddy tells us (Science and Health, p. 505), "Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal." The spiritual understanding I had gained caused the various elements of human thinking about which I was learning, to fall naturally into their proper perspective and place.
