First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge
Wednesday Meeting Readings
Section I
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
17¶And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
18And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
19And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
21And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
22And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
23And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
5¶And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
6And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
7And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
8The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
9For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
10When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
32And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
33And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
34And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
35And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
36And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
37And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
by Mary Baker Eddy
A physician of the old school remarked with great
18gravity: "We know that mind affects the body some‐
Old-school
physician what, and advise our patients to be hopeful
and cheerful and to take as little medicine as
21possible; but mind can never cure organic difficulties."
The logic is lame, and facts contradict it. The author
has cured what is termed organic disease as readily as she
24has cured purely functional disease, and with no power
but the divine Mind.
The refutation of the testimony of material sense is
15not a difficult task in view of the conceded falsity of this
False testimony
refuted testimony. The refutation becomes arduous,
not because the testimony of sin or disease is
18true, but solely on account of the tenacity of belief in its
truth, due to the force of education and the overwhelm‐
ing weight of opinions on the wrong side, — all teaching
21that the body suffers, as if matter could have sensation.
Keep distinctly in
27thought that man is the offspring of God, not of man;
that man is spiritual, not material; that Soul is Spirit,
outside of matter, never in it, never giving the body life
30and sensation. It breaks the dream of disease to under‐
stand that sickness is formed by the human mind, not by
matter nor by the divine Mind.
To cure a bodily ailment, every broken moral law should
be taken into account and the error be rebuked. Fear,
6which is an element of all disease, must be cast out to
readjust the balance for God. Casting out evil and fear
enables truth to outweigh error. The only course is to
9take antagonistic grounds against all that is opposed to
the health, holiness, and harmony of man, God's image.
30Before human knowledge dipped to its depths into a
false sense of things, — into belief in material origins
which discard the one Mind and true source of being, —
214:1it is possible that the impressions from Truth were as
distinct as sound, and that they came as sound to the
3primitive prophets. If the medium of hearing is wholly
spiritual, it is normal and indestructible.
In Colossians (iii. 4) Paul writes: "When Christ, who
is our life, shall appear [be manifested], then shall ye also
Indestructible
being 12appear [be manifested] with him in glory."
When spiritual being is understood in all its
perfection, continuity, and might, then shall man be found
15in God's image. The absolute meaning of the apostolic
words is this: Then shall man be found, in His likeness,
perfect as the Father, indestructible in Life, "hid with
18Christ in God," — with Truth in divine Love, where
human sense hath not seen man.
Hymn 190: “… Things deemed impossible I dare, Thine is the call and Thine the care”
Hymn 384: “… The weak be strong, the fearful bold, The deaf shall hear, the dumb shall sing”
Hymn 64: “From sense to Soul my pathway lies before me, from mist and shadow into Truth's clear day”
