Education in any field or discipline implies comprehension. Understanding is certainly an important, even a key, aspect of Christian Science. Hence education is a foundational factor in our growing in this teaching and demonstrating it. And at the heart of Christian Science education is Primary class instruction.
"We must recollect that Truth is demonstrable when understood, and that good is not understood until demonstrated,"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 323 Mary Baker Eddy advises us. The pupil, coming out of Christian Science class instruction with a more precise, deep, sensitive grasp of the reality of all things, is inevitably a more practical Christian Scientist and a better healer. The pupil will enjoy new insights into the inspired truths of the Bible. So the case for the serious, committed Christian Scientist taking class instruction is not difficult to make.
Surprisingly, then, many pupils could profitably have undergone teaching sooner than they actually did. What happened? Well, there may be a number of reasons. But a fundamental one sometimes is this: Arguments of animal magnetism, not dealt with, resist our progress in whatever specific directions it ought to be taking. A consequence may be fogginess settling around some of the steps required before we are admitted to a class, or apathy in actually taking those steps.
