About five years ago, I taught Sunday School in Hindi—my country's national language. Some of the domestic workers who are employed in many households in my country and who did not know English used to come to the Sunday School regularly. Together, we studied the weekly Bible Lesson, reading and discussing citations from the Bible and Science and Health. This was all done in Hindi.
One Sunday, one of these people mentioned that she often lied. We discussed this in the context of Truth, one of the synonyms for God mentioned in Science and Health, and we came to the conclusion that telling lies keeps us from worshiping God, who is Truth itself. She accepted these ideas very readily and decided to embrace Truth by being honest from that day forward. And she has been able to do this.
After she turned twenty, she was told that she could no longer attend Sunday School because twenty is the maximum age for pupils. Normally, people move on from the Sunday School to the church services. But this woman seemed unusually upset by the thought of leaving an environment that had been so fruitful for her, particularly in light of her need to work in Hindi instead of English. (Science and Health is not translated into Hindi.) So I invited her to come to my home on Sunday afternoons and to study the weekly Bible Lesson with me in Hindi. She readily accepted my invitation. This gave me the opportunity to think about this statement from Science and Health: "Millions of unprejudiced minds—simple seekers for Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert—are waiting and watching for rest and drink. Give them a cup of cold water in Christ's name, and never fear the consequences." Science and Health, p. 570.
