Wednesday Meeting Readings

First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge

Wednesday Meeting Readings

w110907

The 10th anniversary of 9/11

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Section I

The Bible:

Ex 12:14 this (to 1st ;)

14this day shall be unto you for a memorial;

Gen 4:8

8And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

I Sam 5:12 the cry

12the cry of the city went up to heaven.

Amos 9:1,2,5-9,11

1I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.

2Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

5And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

6It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

7Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

8Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.

9For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

11In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

Hos 14:1-9 (to :)

1O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

2Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

5I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

6His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

7They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

8Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them:

Ezek 37:1-5,8-10,11-14

1The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

2And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

3And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.

4Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

5Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

8And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

9Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

11¶Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

12Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

13And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

14And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

John 11:25 I am

25I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Isa 61:1 (to 2nd ;),3,4,7

1The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;

3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

4¶And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

7¶For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

Rev 21:9-12,16,23,24

9And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

11Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

12And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

24And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

Ps 48:2

2Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy

S&H 120:30

30When Columbus gave freer breath to the
globe, ignorance and superstition chained the
limbs of the brave old navigator, and disgrace and star‐
121:1vation stared him in the face; but sterner still would have
been his fate, if his discovery had undermined the favor‐
3ite inclinations of a sensuous philosophy.

S&H 523:30-5

30 In the historic parts of the Old Testament, it is
usually Jehovah, peculiarly the divine sovereign of the
Hebrew people, who is referred to.

524:1The idolatry which followed this material mythology is
seen in the Phoenician worship of Baal, in the Moabitish
Gods of the
heathen 3god Chemosh, in the Moloch of the Amorites,
in the Hindoo Vishnu, in the Greek Aphro‐
dite, and in a thousand other so-called deities.

S&H 589:12-15 (to 1st .)

12Jerusalem. Mortal belief and knowledge obtained
from the five corporeal senses; the pride of power and
the power of pride; sensuality; envy; oppression; tyr‐
15anny.

S&H 541:3

3 Jealous
of his brother's gift, Cain seeks Abel's life, instead of mak‐
ing his own gift a higher tribute to the Most High.

S&H 13:29

The
30world of error is ignorant of the world of Truth, — blind
to the reality of man's existence, — for the world of sen‐
sation is not cognizant of life in Soul, not in body.

S&H 342:21-23

21Christian Science awakens the sinner, reclaims the
infidel, and raises from the couch of pain the helpless
Argument of
good works invalid.

S&H 596:3

3Paganism and agnosticism may define Deity as "the
great unknowable;" but Christian Science brings God
much nearer to man, and makes Him better known as
6the All-in-all, forever near.

S&H 361:25-28

A germ of in‐
finite Truth, though least in the kingdom of heaven, is the
27higher hope on earth, but it will be rejected and reviled
until God prepares the soil for the seed.

S&H 238:31

The cross is the central emblem of history. It is the
lodestar in the demonstration of Christian healing, — the
239:1demonstration by which sin and sickness are destroyed.
The sects, which endured the lash of their predecessors,
3in their turn lay it upon those who are in advance of
creeds.

S&H 225:8

The powers of this world will fight,
9and will command their sentinels not to let truth pass
the guard until it subscribes to their systems; but Science,
heeding not the pointed bayonet, marches on. There is
12always some tumult, but there is a rallying to truth's
standard.

S&H 28:24-6

24 To suppose that persecution
for righteousness' sake belongs to the past,
and that Christianity to-day is at peace with the world
27because it is honored by sects and societies, is to mis‐
take the very nature of religion. Error repeats itself.
The trials encountered by prophet, disciple, and apostle,
30"of whom the world was not worthy," await, in some
form, every pioneer of truth.

There is too much animal courage in society and not
29:1sufficient moral courage. Christians must take up arms
against error at home and abroad. They must grapple
Christian
warfare 3with sin in themselves and in others, and
continue this warfare until they have finished
their course. If they keep the faith, they will have the
6crown of rejoicing.

S&H 354:23

The night of materiality is far spent, and with
24the dawn Truth will waken men spiritually to hear and
to speak the new tongue.

S&H 225:16

A
few immortal sentences, breathing the omnipo‐
18tence of divine justice, have been potent to break despotic
fetters and abolish the whipping-post and slave market;
but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the
21breath of freedom come from the cannon's mouth. Love
is the liberator.

S&H 593:9

9resurrection. Spiritualization of thought; a new
and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence;
material belief yielding to spiritual understanding.

S&H 292:7-10

Truth will be to us "the resurrection and the life" only
as it destroys all error and the belief that Mind, the only
Primitive
error 9immortality of man, can be fettered by the
body, and Life be controlled by death.

S&H 260:7

The conceptions of mortal, erring thought must give
way to the ideal of all that is perfect and eternal. Through
Spiritual
discovery 9many generations human beliefs will be attain‐
ing diviner conceptions, and the immortal and
perfect model of God's creation will finally be seen as
12the only true conception of being.

S&H 574:6-24

6And there came unto me one of the seven angels which
had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked
with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride,
9the Lamb's wife.

This ministry of Truth, this message from divine Love,
carried John away in spirit. It exalted him till he be‐
Vials of
wrath and
consolation 12came conscious of the spiritual facts of being
and the "New Jerusalem, coming down from
God, out of heaven," — the spiritual outpour‐
15ing of bliss and glory, which he describes as the city
which "lieth foursquare." The beauty of this text is,
that the sum total of human misery, represented by
18the seven angelic vials full of seven plagues, has full
compensation in the law of Love. Note this, — that the
very message, or swift-winged thought, which poured
21forth hatred and torment, brought also the experience
which at last lifted the seer to behold the great city, the
four equal sides of which were heaven-bestowed and
24heaven-bestowing.

S&H 592:18

18New Jerusalem. Divine Science; the spiritual facts
and harmony of the universe; the kingdom of heaven,
or reign of harmony.

S&H 393:12-13

12Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike
good.

S&H 406:20-25 We

We can, and ultimately
Resist to
the end 21shall, so rise as to avail ourselves in every direc‐
tion of the supremacy of Truth over error, Life
over death, and good over evil, and this growth will go
24on until we arrive at the fulness of God's idea, and no
more fear that we shall be sick and die.

S&H 565:23

After the stars sang together and all was primeval har‐
24mony, the material lie made war upon the spiritual idea;
but this only impelled the idea to rise to the zenith of
demonstration, destroying sin, sickness, and death, and
27to be caught up unto God, — to be found in its divine
Principle.

S&H 174:17-20 (to 1st .)

The thunder of Sinai and the Sermon on the Mount
18are pursuing and will overtake the ages, rebuking in
their course all error and proclaiming the kingdom of
heaven on earth.

S&H 276:4-9

When the divine precepts
are understood, they unfold the foundation of fellowship,
6in which one mind is not at war with another, but all have
one Spirit, God, one intelligent source, in accordance with
the Scriptural command: "Let this Mind be in you,
9which was also in Christ Jesus."

S&H 340:23

One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; con‐
24stitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the
Scripture, "Love thy neighbor as thyself;" annihilates
pagan and Christian idolatry, — whatever is wrong in
27social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes;
equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves
nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.

S&H 571:19

The cement of a
higher humanity will unite all interests in the one
21divinity.

From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymn 200: "O daughter of Zion, awake from thy sadness"
Hymn 37: "City of God, how broad and far Outspread thy walls sublime"
Hymn 459: "To God compose a song of joy; To God make melody"