Anyone who accepts an assignment to teach in a Christian Science Sunday School has accepted a challenge to think and communicate spontaneously. The discussions in his class must be clear and direct, and they must come from daily experience if they are to be of practical help to the students.
Spontaneity in communications is accompanied by the quality of freshness and newness. It implies an unlimited source of ideas. To be able to have our communications spring forth fresh and new, we must draw on something more than human knowledge. Human knowledge depends on the physical senses and is limited. It is thought of as that which the human intellect seeks out, accumulates, and stores away in an intricate storage unit called the brain. According to this belief the informed human mind may draw on this knowledge at some future date if it needs an answer to questions posed by an uninformed mind, but is it surprising if answers conceived in this way lack sparkle, ingenuity, and freshness?
The definition of Mind, as Mrs. Eddy gives it in Science and Health, reads, "The only I, or Us; the only Spirit, Soul, divine Principle, substance, Life, Truth, Love; the one God; not that which is in man, but the divine Principle, or God, of whom man is the full and perfect expression; Deity, which outlines but is not outlined."Science and Health, p. 591; This definition gives the Sunday School teacher his basis for thinking and for communicating with his students. Looking to God as the source of true knowledge opens his thought to receive the pouring forth of Mind's expression to the class. This spontaneous expression is evidence of divine Love meeting the particular human need of those attending the Sunday School. It is spiritual and comes to the humble thought; it requires a listening attitude. It makes the receptive one instant in response with active, effortless, scientific Truth.
