CMP Review 2025-05-27

May 27, 2025

“Now one or two people have told me that the present methods of teaching in Sunday Schools do not give complete satisfaction everywhere,” wrote Helen Wix in 1917.

Has the situation improved in the past 100 years?

Many people who have discovered the life-giving ideas of Charlotte Mason have wanted to share these ideas with their local church. They have dreamed of having Sunday School lessons patterned after Miss Mason’s approach. However, they haven’t been sure how to propose such an approach or what it would really look like in practice.

Helen Wix, one of the major figures in the early Charlotte Mason movement, tackled similar questions at a series of meetings with the Sunday School teachers of her day. The papers she read were published in The Parents’ Review in two articles in 1917 and 1918.

The Charlotte Mason Poetry team has transcribed and recorded both articles into a single post so that you can obtain in one sitting Helen Wix’s complete thoughts on Charlotte Mason and Sunday school. Her suggestions are inspiring and relevant, and perhaps they might find a home in your own local church someday soon. Read or hear her papers here.

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