The Girls’ Sunday School is in need of two or three teachers. It is thought by many that this work should be done by those who have leisure during the week, but the majority of Sunday School teachers come from those who are working hard all the week.

The first qualification for such work as teaching in the Sunday School is that a person should want to do something for Jesus. He has bid us “Feed His Lambs.” The most important piece of work we can do for Him is to teach the little ones. And it is the most exacting of all service for the Master. It not only takes up time and requires preparation, but it tries the patience and saps the energy. But Jesus does not expect us to find the work we do for Him easy. It is not acceptable unless it entails great sacrifice. Of course those who are teachers by profession should be best qualified for this work. Many of them imagine that because they teach children all the week they should not be expected to help in the Sunday Schools. A great number do help and are very valuable to the Vicars with whom they work. I am persuaded that our Lord would no more countenance the excuse of the teacher than he would the excuse of others that they are so busy all the week that they want time to themselves on Sundays. The plea of not being able to teach is no excuse either because Jesus took his first band of teachers from ignorant and unlearned men. They were able to teach because the power of the Holy Spirit was upon them and that Power is available for all Sunday School teachers. It is just a matter of obeying Christ’s call, of doing what Jesus would like us to do rather than what we would like to do. Well, there is the work. Jesus is expecting it to be done by some of you. Do not disappoint Him.

Source: The Hampton Hill Parish Magazine - 1935 October