Volume One: The Ten Commandments
Volume Two: The Beatitudes
Volume
Three: The Lord's Prayer
Transcripts; $19.95 each
This trilogy
is a collection of "home Sunday School" lessons in Christian Science
for parents to
share with children and young teens. The books are
also useful for those teaching Sunday
School. The lessons provide
an in-depth look at the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, and
the Lord's
Prayer, which were designated by Mary Baker Eddy as the "first lessons"
to be
taught to young children in the Christian Science Sunday Schools.
The manuals are simple transcripts, easily removable from their covers.
This non-permanent
binding is necessary, because the lessons have
been prepared in the form of "clip-and-carry"
lessons, which may be
copied, cut out, and used on-the-go for today's busy families. The
lessons can also be read directly from the book. The manual is perfect
for parents or teachers
with little time to do their own research,
or for those who are simply looking for fresh ideas to
teach.
Parents
can read and discuss each lesson with their children, or the older
child can read the
lessons alone. Each lesson takes only a few minutes
to read out loud, but will offer a prompt,
or springboard, for further
discussion. The lessons for the older children include ideas for
putting
that day's lesson into practice, or suggestions for further study.
There are over 100 lessons in each book. Each line of the Ten Commandments,
the Beatitudes,
and Lord's Prayer is studied in detail. Each section
starts with a couple of lessons for the little
kids. The rest of the
lessons are in question-and-answer format appropriate for a wide range
of ages.
Excerpt from the Introduction to First Lessons in Christian
Science:
Some of my favorite times in the Christian Science Sunday
School were spent in the preschool
age classes. Not as a pupil, however,
since I did not start attending a Christian Science Sunday
School until
I was about eight years old, but as a teacher. When I turned twenty,
I graduated from
Sunday School, and joined both my local church and
The Mother Church in Boston. My first
assignment as a local member
was to teach one of the youngest Sunday School classes. I took
my new
responsibilities very seriously, and so I turned to the Manual of
the Mother Church to find
out what my duties might be. That’s when
I came across the “First Lessons.” Here is what it says
in Article
XX:
Teaching the Children. SECT. 2. The Sabbath School children shall
be taught the Scriptures, and they shall be instructed according to
their understanding or ability to grasp the simpler meanings of the
divine Principle that they are taught.
Subject for Lessons. SECT.
3. The first lessons of the children
should be the Ten Commandments
(Exodus 20:3-17), the Lord’s
Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13), and its Spiritual
Interpretation by Mary Baker
Eddy, Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:3-12).
The next lessons consist
of such questions and answers as are adapted
to a juvenile class,
and may be found in the Christian Science Quarterly
Lessons, read
in Church services. The instruction given by the children’s
teachers must not deviate from the absolute Christian Science
contained
in their textbook.
I saw that I should be teaching the young children
the “First Lessons” of the Ten Commandments,
the Lord’s Prayer, and
the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. After thinking back on
my
own Sunday School experience as an older child and teenager, I realized
that I had missed
something: a strong foundation in those First Lessons.
Although the Bible Lessons from the
Christian Science Quarterly would
occasionally focus on those First Lessons, I did not recall
any of
my teachers in the older classes insisting that we study or memorize
these foundational
lessons, even when the classes may have had students
new to our religion.
From my own experience in teaching Sunday School,
and years of casual research on the
First Lessons, I’ve come to the
conclusion that when Mrs. Eddy set forth the “first lessons of the
children,”
in the Manual, the “children” could mean anyone who is new to Christian
Science.
I have learned the hard way that these lessons are indispensable
to spiritualizing our thinking.
We cannot fully grow until these roots
have taken hold.
An in-depth study of the First Lessons will prove
how important Mrs. Eddy felt they were to our
progress. The citations
I have gathered and included in this book will demonstrate this point.
I believe Mrs. Eddy speaks to those of all ages, when she writes
in the textbook: “The entire
education of children should be such
as to form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual
law, with
which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical
laws, a belief which
breeds disease.” (S&H 62)
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