First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge
Wednesday Meeting Readings
Section I
4ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.
5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
7For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
26Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
27This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
28And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
29Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
30And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
22And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
23And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
24And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
25And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
19¶Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
13¶Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
15¶Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
22Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold:
35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
Answer. — Error is a supposition that pleasure and
15pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in mat‐
Evanescent
materiality ter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's
faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth.
18Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal
because untrue. It is that which seemeth to be and is not.
Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect
but faintly the substance of Life or Mind. The denial of
18material selfhood aids the discernment of man's spirit‐
ual and eternal individuality, and destroys the erroneous
knowledge gained from matter or through what are termed
21the material senses.
Certain erroneous postulates should be here considered
Erroneous
postulates in order that the spiritual facts may be better
24apprehended.
The first erroneous postulate of belief is, that substance,
life, and intelligence are something apart from God.
27The second erroneous postulate is, that man is both
mental and material.
The third erroneous postulate is, that mind is both evil
30and good; whereas the real Mind cannot be evil nor the
medium of evil, for Mind is God.
The fourth erroneous postulate is, that matter is in‐
92:1telligent, and that man has a material body which is part
of himself.
3The fifth erroneous postulate is, that matter holds in
itself the issues of life and death, — that matter is not
only capable of experiencing pleasure and pain, but also
6capable of imparting these sensations.
Some invalids are unwilling to know the facts or to
24hear about the fallacy of matter and its supposed laws.
Deluded
invalids They devote themselves a little longer to their
material gods, cling to a belief in the life and
27intelligence of matter, and expect this error to do more
for them than they are willing to admit the only living and
true God can do. Impatient at your explanation, unwill‐
30ing to investigate the Science of Mind which would rid
them of their complaints, they hug false beliefs and suffer
the delusive consequences.
30The
error, which says that Soul is in body, Mind is in matter,
and good is in evil, must unsay it and cease from such
205:1utterances; else God will continue to be hidden from hu‐
manity, and mortals will sin without knowing that they
3are sinning, will lean on matter instead of Spirit, stumble
with lameness, drop with drunkenness, consume with dis‐
ease, — all because of their blindness, their false sense
6concerning God and man.
9We cannot fathom the nature and quality of God's
creation by diving into the shallows of mortal belief. We
must reverse our feeble flutterings — our efforts to find
12life and truth in matter — and rise above the testimony
of the material senses, above the mortal to the immortal
idea of God. These clearer, higher views inspire the God‐
15like man to reach the absolute centre and circumference
of his being.
40:1 Remove error
from thought, and it will not appear in effect. The ad‐
Sin and
penalty 3vanced thinker and devout Christian, perceiv‐
ing the scope and tendency of Christian healing
and its Science, will support them. Another will say:
6"Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient
season I will call for thee."
It is the spiritualization of thought and Christianization
of daily life, in contrast with the results of the ghastly farce
Unspiritual
contrasts 21of material existence; it is chastity and purity,
in contrast with the downward tendencies
and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity,
24which really attest the divine origin and operation of Chris‐
tian Science.
Hymn 94: "Hath not thy heart within thee burned At evening's calm and holy hour"
Hymn 442: "Here, O God, Thy healing presence Lifts our thoughts from self and sin"
Hymn 389: "While Thou, O my God, art my help and defender, No cares can o'erwhelm me, no terrors appall"
