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Helping Our Sunday Schools to Grow

From the May 1976 issue of The Christian Science Journal


An active Sunday School in a Church of Christ, Scientist, is as much a demonstration of divine Love as a healing church service, and it needs the prayers and love of the members as much as the service does.

Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, taught and fed with truth those who came to him, both adults and children. He taught multitudes. Do our Sunday Schools also attract multitudes? They certainly can! But in order to help them do so, church members need to dedicate themselves to praying daily for the activity.

Mrs. Eddy expected a great deal from the practice of true Christianity. She writes in the Christian Science textbook: "If all who ever partook of the sacrament had really commemorated the sufferings of Jesus and drunk of his cup, they would have revolutionized the world. If all who seek his commemoration through material symbols will take up the cross, heal the sick, cast out evils, and preach Christ, or Truth, to the poor,—the receptive thought,—they will bring in the millennium." Science and Health, p. 34;

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