THROUGHOUT the centuries teachers, poets, and writers in general have extolled mother love, but Christian Science defines God as Father-Mother, thus bringing to mankind the true understanding of mother love. The motherly qualities are vital to good Sunday School teaching. The fact that they originate in God, divine Love, makes them available to all who seek to demonstrate them.
Mother love sees in the budding thought the full flower, tends it carefully, nourishes it sufficiently, and brings it to glad fruition through the unfoldment of God's allness. How graciously Christ Jesus manifested the motherly qualities that should characterize the Sunday School teacher! When the disciples tried to keep parents from bringing their little ones to Jesus to be blessed or healed, Jesus protested by saying (Mark 10: 14), "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God."
What warmth of love Jesus expressed, giving us the example for all time! Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 236), "Jesus loved little children because of their freedom from wrong and their receptiveness of right." Parents and Sunday School teachers should also perceive children as Jesus did in order to bring out their inherent goodness, harmony, and beauty of character.
