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Absolute Christian Science in the Sunday School

From the November 1968 issue of The Christian Science Journal


A Sunday School teacher in the Christian Science Sunday School has a priceless privilege in guiding youth to understand their inheritance of spiritual individuality. The sixteenth century philosopher Francis Bacon cites the poet's saying "no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth."Essays, Of Truth;

"The vantage ground of truth" in teaching in the Sunday School is defined by the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy. In Section 3 of Article XX she writes, "The instruction given by the children's teachers must not deviate from the absolute Christian Science contained in their textbook."

Properly taught, young people will find the absolute spiritual verities contained in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, so inspiring as to prove practical in their everyday living. But such teaching calls for consecration and prayer. The consciousness of the teacher needs to be purged of concern for personal popularity, mere theorizing, and absorption in human philosophies. It must be subordinated to the Christ ideal, or the teaching will subvert the pure inspiration of absolute Christian Science. Nor is the creedal acknowledgment of Truth enough. Rather we should endeavor to be in that conscious communion with Truth that purifies and cleanses our hearts and minds. Our very structure of thought should be molded and fashioned upon the invariable fundamentals of Christian Science.

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