Effective teaching in the Christian Science Sunday School gains inspired impetus as teachers recognize the source of all true knowledge. This source is Mind, God. The teacher's earnest desire to be divinely guided and to know that only the qualities of the one Mind are expressed by teacher and student blesses everyone concerned.
Spiritual understanding makes the hour in Sunday School a productive one. It results from inspired, dedicated thinking. One gains spiritual understanding as he turns to the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. Using concordances and dictionaries as aids helps one overcome the tendency to use words glibly and aids in properly digesting the rich food for thought in every weekly Lesson-Sermon. Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons; With the Psalmist one might pray: "Teach me thy statutes. . . . Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." Ps. 119:12, 18
With spiritual understanding goes joyous enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is contagious. When expressed by the teacher, it communicates itself to the students. An enthusiastic Sunday School teacher comes to his class with happy anticipation. He is unburdened by self-consciousness or any negative suggestions of inability to reach the thought of his students.
