"What constitutes a successful Sunday School experience for a student? Is it enough to think that a student has had a good Sunday School education if, after sixteen or seventeen years attending, he or she merely knows how to call a Christian Science practitioner and knows very well how to be a good patient?
"Suppose all of us sit around a swimming pool for seventeen years, just talking about how to swim. When I turn twenty years old, I feel a push and I'm in the pool. Well, now what? I don't know how to do this. I've talked about it. And I know my coach's phone number. But I don't know how to swim. Well, that's kind of what we're doing sometimes. We're not encouraging practice―the thing that we love the most! Of course, it's not wrong for children to call on practitioners, but they should also experience the joy of learning to pray and heal. After all, what has been the most substantial thing to us about Christian Science? It's the practice; it's living it. And all the children have to do is live it just a little bit, and it will be the most important thing in their lives."
