ONE way of teaching is the question and answer method. That this method is not new is brought to light through the study of the Bible. In many instances questions were asked by those presenting some spiritual truth. The very question itself in many cases brought home the point better than an explanation could have done.
Christ Jesus used this method. For example, when Philip said (John 14:8), "Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us," Jesus answered with these questions: "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?"
A close study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, as well as of her other writings, discloses that she also used the question and answer method. In her provision in the Manual of The Mother Church for Sunday School teaching in all Churches of Christ, Scientist (Art. XX, Sect. 3), she stipulated that after the children have been taught the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and its spiritual interpretation, and the Sermon on the Mount, their teaching shall be by suitable questions and answers based upon the current Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly.
